Government Quotes · Page 68

A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.

— Ernie Fletcher

If men were angels, there would be no need of government.

— James Madison

When governance improves, there will be less have-nots and more haves.

— Kiran Bedi

The object of government is the welfare of the people.

— Theodore Roosevelt

You measure a government by how few people need help.

— Patricia Schroeder

In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.

— Gore Vidal

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

— John C. Calhoun

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.

— Martin McGuinness

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

— C. L. R. James

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

— Manmohan Singh

Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be…

— George Washington

[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.

— Auguste Piccard

People have seen the Modi government's track record, and now they believe that if we say something, it will happen.

— Piyush Goyal

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it…

— Barbara Tuchman

AI is witnessing an early innings in India. It has a thoughtful government, and India can race ahead if it chooses to.

— Andrew Ng

The White House doesn't create jobs. The government together - White House, Congress - creates policies that allow for greater job creation.

— Jay Carney

In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to…

— Pope Pius VI

In a democracy sovereignity is vested in a majority; and a majority is not only, at best, an ignorant, foolish and emotional…

— Jean Bodin

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern…

— Steve Forbes

Together, we could open up government and invite citizens in, while connecting all of America to 21st century broadband. We could use…

— Barack Obama

We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the…

— Ronald Reagan

Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined…

— H. L. Mencken

Government's the primary source of prosperity for you, if you're on the left. And if you believe that business exists to kill…

— Rush Limbaugh

So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in…

— Anonymous

It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should…

— Jacques Barzun

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

There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president.…

— Barack Obama

Almost 60,000 average Americans had the courage to go out and charge those beaches on Normandy, to drop out of airplanes who…

— Rick Santorum

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent…

— H. L. Mencken

All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man's working place and…

— Ronald Reagan

Government is the natural enemy of freedom.

— Garet Garrett

“The national government belongs to the whole American people,”

— Charles A. Beard

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government...

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It is the nature of government and of technology to establish control.

— Paul Craig Roberts

Don't steal, don't lie and don't cheat. The government hates competition

— Nishan Panwar

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

— Winston Churchill

Democracy requires an informed citizenry able to question its government.

— Richard N. Haass

“The police can be more corrupt than the criminals.”

— Steven Magee