Government Quote by Edward Snowden

I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose,

— Edward Snowden

“Companies made money and were beholden to stockholders; it was understandable if they tried to “cover their ass,” people told me. But the government…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

“The other day, one of the big shots was trying to say ‘Nice shoes!’ and he accidentally told a government minister that his face…

— Carl Hiaasen

Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the…

— Bertolt Brecht

Parliamentary government is simply a mild and disguised form of compulsion. We agree to try strength by counting heads instead of breaking heads, but…

— James Fitzjames Stephen

Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and…

— Anonymous

The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.

— Doug Casey

“When it comes down to it, government is simply an abandonment of responsibility on the assumption that there are people, other than ourselves, who…

— Alan W. Watts

The role of government has never been to plan every detail or dictate every outcome. At its best, government has simply knocked away barriers…

— Barack Obama

Ed Balls has made it crystal clear that, left to its own devices, a Labour government would simply carry on with the same budget…

— Nicola Sturgeon

“There could be nothing, he reflected, to equal a government which was simply the honest enforcement, by means of the sword, of the laws…

— Paul Bowles

The government is simply working to ensure that the farmers get better price discovery for their produce.

— Anurag Thakur

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an…

— Margaret Halsey

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

— Salman Rushdie