Government Quotes
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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 more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice.
James Cook
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Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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The government endangers us with our own money.
James Cook
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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
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The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person.
James Cook
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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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The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.
Alfred Nobel
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Why do people look to the government to fix the economy? It's mind-boggling.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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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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Government . . . is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection.
Andrew Horning
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I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working.
Evan Osnos
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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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I want to use my position of influence to change the laws of the land to the benefit of the women of Trinidad and Tobago, divide the economic pie more evenly and appoint more women to positions within the government.
Dalia Grybauskaite
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People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.
Sarah Palin
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It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government’s or the private sector’s, by printing enough money to pay for it in depreciated dollars.
Caroline Baum
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Public influence is the real government of the world.
Josiah Warren
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We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.
George Will
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In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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I have always felt that the real purpose of government is to enhance the lives of people and that a leader can best do that by restraining government in most cases instead of enlarging it at every opportunity.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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All of what the government said is lies upon lies.
Ahmed Abu Khattala
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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
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It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.
Rick Perry
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American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.
Nikki Haley