Government Quotes
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Every night at dinner, my father would say something about the greatness of the United States - and tell us to make sure the government is there for the next people who come along and need it.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
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If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.
Bernard Crick
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Muslims have their own traditions. The important point to bear in mind is that the whole Muslim tradition is totally and unequivocally opposed to autocratic and oppressive government. This is very, very clear.
Bernard Lewis
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I think the Republican Party is supposed to be the party of less government intrusion.
Monica Crowley
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The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.
Geronimo
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The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.
Tim Pawlenty
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So a working couple can contribute a lot more with a Roth 401(k). Each spouse can put $15,000 into a Roth 401(k). It's an opportunity to put a lot of money away that you'll never again have to share with the government.
Ed Slott
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I would continue to do the things that I do. I'd get into the field and work, and be an example to other people that you can't rely on the government to be the answer to everything.
Cindy McCain
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I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
Ray Bradbury
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America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.
Todd Akin
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I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.
Ginger Baker Cream
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We have long suspected that the faceless organisations that run our world - be it the church, multinational conglomerates or the government - keep things from us.
Simon Toyne
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The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.
George Bernard Shaw
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And I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe.
Benjamin Carson
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The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.
Eugene V. Debs
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It is important to stand up and say the government is wrong.
Ann Wright
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The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.
George Will
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Conservative concepts believe in little government - take care of yourself, and that makes men who invent things like the constitution! Liberal thought has big government - we'll take care of you - and that creates boys and they create things like Occupy Wall Street! There's a difference between the way men and boys behave.
Brad Stine
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I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still some freedom of the press, but I think it's moving in the wrong direction.
Bernard Lewis
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High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.
Thomas Sowell
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Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.
Tim Robbins
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We will continue to support the Palestinian Authority until the new government is formed and on that we are trying to find the necessary resources.
Javier Solana
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All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.
Steven Hatfill
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Our Father in Heaven planned the coming forth of the Founding Fathersand their form of government as the necessary great prologue leading to the restoration of the gospel... America, the land of liberty, was to be the Lord's latter-day base of operations for His restored church.
Ezra Taft Benson