Government Quotes
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
Wang Jianlin
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The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?
Rand Paul
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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
Wendell Willkie
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
Ha-Joon Chang
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
Vikram Patel
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Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.
Gavin Newsom
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
Ida B. Wells
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The public in many countries is understandably concerned by the commitment of substantial government resources to aid the financial industry when other industries receive little or no assistance. This disparate treatment, unappealing as it is, appears unavoidable.
Ben Bernanke
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
Eddy Cue
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.
Mercy Otis Warren
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
Lajos Kossuth
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National governments alone cannot deliver lasting prosperity without a transformation of social and economic development that seeks to minimise risk and seize the opportunity we have.
Patricia Espinosa
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
G. Edward Griffin
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A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.
Jack Layton
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
Kate Millett
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God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.
Yehuda Berg
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The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.
Carly Fiorina
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Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the host of stars turn towards it.
Confucius
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Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It's all the participants in the network enforcing.
Naval Ravikant
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
Gary Webb
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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
Walter Ulbricht
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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
Victoria Woodhull
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President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of a government shutdown.
Dana Perino