Government Quotes
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Our rights come from God, not the government.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them.
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I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.
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The public expects and deserves the protection that effective government oversight provides. Until the Bush administration shows it is willing to do the job, however, it appears the public will have to rely on state regulators and lawmakers to protect its interests.
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I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
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Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.
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Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
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Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens.
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I love serving in the government. I love serving in the Senate.
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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
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The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
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All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
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If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.
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In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.