Government Quotes
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Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.
Nicolas Walter
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History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.
Carter G. Woodson
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The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.
Mia Love
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The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.
Jimmy Carter
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The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom.
Evgeny Morozov
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In terms of the Patriot Act, and all the other things he has pledged he would do, such as transparency in government, Barack Obama has reneged on his promises.
Nat Hentoff
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Why wouldn’t it be the government? It’s not like we have a perfectly operational terrorist group right here to do it.
Beth Revis
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If the condition of Government stands still, it just makes no sense and must die, so, therefore, the improvement within that democracy must be the greater and greater equalization of rights and opportunities to the people as those people grow up.
Sidney Buchman
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Whether it is sufficiently meeting systemic needs is largely left up to whether we trust the government.
James "Jim" Seals
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I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.
Heather Wilson
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I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.
Tony Blair
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The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenryThis is for usThis is for us when our government becomes tyrannical
Sharron Angle
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Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.
William Francis Buckley
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The primary role of the church is to reflect God's value system in society and to train people in that value system. It's not the government's responsibility, nor are they equipped to do that on the most local level where the need exists.
Tony Evans
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Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.
Thomas Sowell
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This is government. There is no entertainment.
Judy Davis
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It is time to investigate Russian interference in our democracy and to address it in a manner that will help restore Americans' trust in their government.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
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The government has agreed to implement a clause in the agreement in relation to the paramilitary groups. This is a good sign.
Anton Balasingham
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The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.
James Cook
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I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.
Howard Stern
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Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.
Thomas Sowell
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Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people.
Nikki Haley
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Now that Britain has voted to leave, I think the country deserves to have a leader who believes in Britain outside the European Union and who also has experience at the highest level of government.
Michael Gove