Government Quotes
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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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No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out the window. If you want work-life balance you just have to accept that you can't be a senior member of a government, or for that matter a senior member of an opposition.
Tony Abbott
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A liberal was somebody who expected and hoped that government would help the poor - you know, that whole routine. I did not know then and I've learned since that in an area that means a lot to me, free speech, liberals are as bad as many conservatives in trying to censor speech.
Nat Hentoff
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So government acts as a safeguard of our property.
William Weld
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Government is supposed to be neutral on religion. It has no business telling people how, when, or where to pray—or even if they ought to pray. Government does lots of things well, but meddling in our private religious lives is not among them.
Barry W. Lynn
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Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution.
Sarah Palin
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If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don't get onto bookstore shelves.
Evan Osnos
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Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do.
Tony Blair
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I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.
Theresa May
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The Government has already U-turned today and I think the pressure is clearly growing for proper accountability over what this Government's negotiating position is on Brexit.
Theresa May
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It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
Tony Blair
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The government is, in fact, urging you to pray. That's simply not government's job.
Barry W. Lynn
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As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
Esther Dyson
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Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.
Richard M. Nixon
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There is a government within the government who controll this and i do not controll it...
Bill Clinton
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This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
Benjamin Carson
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
Thomas More
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As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be regimented.
Edward Bernays
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From day one, my mantra has been - and will continue to be - that as a government we were there to serve the people, not the other way around.
Dalia Grybauskaite
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The influence I would hope to have is to create an environment where we're not singling Americans out - that we are creating opportunities for all Americans. Not saying, 'I'm going to funnel money into your city so that you're completely dependent on government.
Mia Love
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Rather than concede to the state of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my government in any matter however unimportant, I would see you, and you, and you, and you, and every man, woman and child in the state, dead and buried. This means war.
Nathaniel Lyon
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It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.
Thomas Sowell
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The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.
Steve Forbes
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People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
Benjamin Carson