Government Quotes
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Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.
Richard Linklater
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The collapse of communism as an ideology and of the Soviet Union as a world power has made possible an unprecedented internationalization of current American values, among them free choice in the consumer marketplace, reduced government economic regulation and an emphasis on individual self-fulfillment rather than the social good, all promoted by an internationalized mass media and consumer culture.
Eric Foner
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I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.
George W. Romney
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The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.
Tony Abbott
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You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for wealth creation.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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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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Well depending on the government, you either work through the government, which is ideal, because then you're strengthening their capabilities, or you work through the non-governmental organizations. It's never easy, and you know, it's just about the very basics of health. This is not hospitals. This is just primary health care [in Africa], the most simple things, and even so, getting the supplies out, getting the trained workers there.
Bill Gates
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State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.
Ernie Fletcher
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Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out.
Tim Pawlenty
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People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.
William Francis Buckley