Government Quotes · Page 32

“I do not waste my time interacting with corrupt government agencies.”

— Steven Magee

He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.

— John Adams

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

— Ronald Reagan

You don't succeed on corruption in five minutes. I wish one could.

— James Wolfensohn

To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.

— Irene Peter

The more the government has centralised, the less houses we have built.

— Grant Shapps

Government school education across India is in shambles.

— Atishi

Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.

— Confucius

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

— William J. Clinton

The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.

— Mario Monti

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

— Denis Diderot

From day one, my mantra has been - and will continue to be - that as a government we were there to…

— Dalia Grybauskaite

People tend to have a government that reflects the level of consciousness of the majority of people who voted.

— Marianne Williamson

Large government is inevitably inefficient, but so, too, is large private enterprise.

— Richard Cohen

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

— Theresa May

Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.

— Robert H. Jackson

Even a very brief tape-delay introduces a form of censorship into the broadcast - not direct governmental control, but it means that…

— Frank Pierson

At the head of any new undertaking where in France you would find the government, or in England some great lord, in…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

If we don't stop immigration - this torrent of immigrants coming in - we're not going to be America anymore because most…

— Phyllis Schlafly

Thanks," many small businesspeople are saying, "but no thanks. Forget the government credits and loan programs, and just get rid of all…

— Oliver DeMille

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles…

— Ivan Krastev

The act of getting married, stripped of the necessity to have a secure setting to raise children, seems to me no less…

— Harry Shearer

The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery…

— Dumas Malone

Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is…

— Rick Perry

If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part…

— Calvin Coolidge

The way that things happen in Egypt, the government - or the head of the government - don't get personally involved. They…

— Bassem Youssef

We need to surrender our attachments to government in every aspect of life. We need to give up our dependencies on the…

— Ron Paul

“[James M. Buchanan] directed hostility toward college students, public employees, recipients of any kind of government assistance, and liberal intellectuals. His intellectual…

— Nancy MacLean

The most widely discussed formulation of [the One World model] was the "end of history" thesis advanced by Francis Fukuyama. "We may…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Every government has signed up to a voluntary legal commitment under at least one of the international covenants and conventions based on…

— Mary Robinson

I visited the Ethiopian National Project which was created by the government to fully integrate Ethiopian Jews into Israel's society. They're still…

— Cory Booker

I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just…

— William Tyler

Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.

— William J. Clinton

No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power

— Stefan Molyneux

If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.

— Erich Fromm

Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.

— Anonymous

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

— Goldwin Smith

“Why do people look to the government to fix the economy? It's mind-boggling.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

— Anonymous

I don't trust a government I can't shoot back at

— Claire Wolfe