Government Quotes

• The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • World
  • Worst
  • Anarchy

• As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • Government
  • Reason
  • Three

• The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Nature
  • Soul

• Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.

  

  Tom Harkin
  • Childhood
  • Obesity
  • Alarms

• Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Politics
  • Easy

• The American world had - seemingly, at least - become a Jeffersonian world by the election of 1800, which placed Thomas Jefferson in the presidency. Jefferson had been Hamilton's rival in the new government's early years, and Hamilton has figured in the public memory almost as much for that rivalry as for his positive achievements.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • World
  • American
  • Positive

• The majority of ground in the U.S. is owned by the federal government, and right now, very little of it is accessible to anybody that is trying to produce oil and gas, and we need to be opening that up.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Opening

• Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Government
  • Television

• Authentic journalism is telling people something that the government doesn't want them to know.

  

  Gary Webb
  • People
  • Journalism
  • Authentic

• I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • You
  • Cutting
  • Yesterday

• In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Party
  • Government
  • Fight

• We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Financial
  • Stock

• We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Government
  • Problems

• You measure a government by how few people need help.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • People
  • Help
  • Measure

• After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • War
  • Disease
  • Lifetime

• It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people to do this, and to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny, which may appear under any mode or form of government.

  

  Mercy Otis Warren
  • People
  • Becoming
  • Endeavor

• The government needs a role in carrying out exploration. They will be leading the development of the engines that are needed, and the private sector will take advantage of those.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Development
  • Exploration
  • Engines

• It's been incredibly frustrating. The US government gave permission for the doctors to live in America, in freedom.

  

  Jeff Cohen
  • Doctors
  • U.S.
  • Permission

• Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Political
  • Government
  • Moral

• If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should approach me. No problem.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Problem
  • Government
  • Value

• The Constitution of the United States, like all systems of government which are permanent, had its origin in the history and necessities of the people through whose instrumentality and for whose benefit it was formed.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • People
  • History
  • Government

• As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.

  

  P. Sathasivam
  • Work
  • Law
  • Judge

• I announce the resignation of the government, perhaps as the only way for Lebanon's main political blocs to assume their responsibilities and come together to pull Lebanon out of an unknown tunnel.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Together
  • Political
  • Unknown

• Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free trade. But actually, if you look at the history, this is actually the country that has succeeded most with protectionist policies.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Country
  • Done
  • America

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