Government Quotes · Page 310

One of the things that the public sector banks need to do is to raise private capital from the market and not…

— Urjit Patel

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.

— Tulsi Gabbard

[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in…

— James Monroe

“Your enemy is not in North Korea or Syria, it is your own corporate controlled government.”

— Steven Magee

We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she…

— Ashraf Ghani

If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never…

— John Dickinson

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

— Joe Lhota

The government cannot put a chocolate on every one of their pillows and tuck them in at night.

— John Mica

Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both…

— John Poindexter

At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the…

— Ethel Rosenberg

The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to…

— Ronald Reagan

I've written about this before, but the sad truth is this: There are only a handful of Trump true believers in the…

— Rick Wilson

I have long been a critic of Social Security, basically because I believe that it is not the business of government to…

— Milton Friedman

I am going to put the miners, the steel workers, and so many of our other workers that are being clobbered by…

— Donald Trump

I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are…

— Jimmy Carter

I think it's more likely that we can make positive changes happen on environment and military issues if states begin to secede.…

— David Swanson

As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to…

— John Dewey

I have faith that the Constitution will be saved as prophesied by Joseph Smith. It will be saved by the righteous citizens…

— Ezra Taft Benson

How our governments need standards of integrity! How our communities need yardsticks to measure decency! How our neighborhoods need models of beauty…

— L. Tom Perry

Financial innovation can be highly dangerous, though almost no one will tell you this. New financial products are typically created for sunny…

— Seth Klarman

In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part…

— Tony Abbott

What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government.…

— Calvin Coolidge

I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.

— Dennis Kozlowski

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

— Adam Weishaupt

We can't depend on consumers to spend money they don't have on stuff they don't need, so the government has to do…

— Jacob Sullum

I can imagine [the government] trying to tell Steven Spielberg 'We need 50 different cuts of your movie for each state.' It…

— John Riccitiello

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

— Tony Campolo

If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and…

— Anonymous

As the economy and peoples' habits change, we need to demonstrate that Connecticut's state government can keep pace.

— Ned Lamont

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

— Anonymous

The passage of a Bill through Parliament is a chance for members of Parliament - including government ministers - to finesse and…

— Suella Braverman

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a…

— Peter Drucker

It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all…

— Enoch Powell

“It is horrible how people will use anything as a political monkey wrench and to hell with the country. (Julia Child to…

— Joan Reardon

For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

— Alexander Pope

“Here the only one who has the right to prohibit anything is the government, we live in a democracy.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

— Susan Sontag

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a…

— Rupert Murdoch