Government Quotes · Page 316

Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.

— Russell B. Long

There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.

— Will Rogers

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

— Milton Friedman

Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness.

— Jim Goad

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.

— William Godwin

corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table.

— Arianna Huffington

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education.…

— Charles Barkley

I first learned the power of a Labour government to transform lives growing up in my hometown of Stockport.

— Angela Rayner

For us, the government of Venezuelan Nicolas Maduro is not a government that allows democratic plurality. It does not allow for there…

— Nayib Bukele

Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people…

— Jeff Cooper

Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other…

— Anthony Albanese

In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“He’s always complaining about the fucking recession and how the government is working against people like him. He calls himself working class,…

— Ida Løkås

One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention…

— Noam Chomsky

And once again the government has failed to get the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of…

— Peter Jennings

What are the policy implications of the government and this fantasy Islam, what are the policy implications of a United States government…

— Rush Limbaugh

When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least…

— Millicent Fenwick

Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as…

— Michel Foucault

This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying.…

— Garrison Keillor

Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be…

— Chief Joseph

I just don't really get into all that sort of personal negative stuff. My job is to outline some positive plans for…

— Kevin Rudd

You can read it in history books now, but they often suppress the fact that the U.S. government tolerated [Nazi]. It's really…

— Noam Chomsky

The government's collection authority, under the Patriot Act, is basically limitless. They can get the medical records and financial records, gun purchase…

— Ron Wyden

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.

— Mahatma Gandhi

True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.

— Robert Higgs

State universities in Illinois are a microcosm of our state government - broken with work rules and administrative bureaucracy.

— Bruce Rauner

I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.

— Carly Fiorina

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.

— Mitt Romney

You can grow marijuana, so the government can't tax you and they don't like that, that's why they prohibit it.

— Jesse Ventura

I want to convey a message to the Sri Lankan government that they should seriously consider sending Sri Lankan Cricket Team to…

— Sanath Jayasuriya

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve…

— Bill Gates

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force

— Ann Coulter

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

— George Deukmejian

“Kati ya nchi yako na serikali yako ni kitu gani unakipenda zaidi? Ipende zaidi nchi yako, kuliko serikali yako!”

— Enock Maregesi

Vis a vis the Golan Heights, the present government of Israel, under my leadership, is the first government that is ready to…

— Yitzhak Rabin

In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities.

— Janine di Giovanni

The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and…

— Mark Levin