Government Quotes
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A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.
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Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the financial disasters that followed. Political rhetoric, echoed in the media, seeks to obscure that painfully plain fact.
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Whatever failures may have come to parliamentary government in countries which have not those traditions, and where it is not a natural growth, that is no proof that parliamentary government has failed.
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I'm a parent, and I regulate what my kids listen to. I don't need the government to be the parent. If I'm a crappy parent, then I need the government involved.
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For a country to have a great writer … is like having another government. That’s why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.
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Mustafa Kemal's government was certainly authoritarian, but he had a saying which is profoundly true, I don't remember the exact words, but what he said was that I am a dictator so that there will never again be a dictator in Turkey, and I think that was right. He felt that there were certain changes which needed to be made. He wanted to make those changes, he felt they were essential.
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Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".
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You should be glad that the government has provided for chain and bangles at their own expense, why are you feeling so bad about it?
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The failures of urban renewal reflect a failure at all levels of government to realize that people, not structures, really determine a city’s success.
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The European Union should not be prescribing an identity. We know what that's like, when a government tells its people how it should look; what it should be doing. That's the first step towards totalitarianism.
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Big government makes small citizens.
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What the government is proposing is unacceptable, ... There's no basis for our party to express confidence in this government.
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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.
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I believe that there will be a very substantial, perhaps even a two-thirds majority, for constitutional change and the modernization of our system of government in the next Parliament.
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Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.
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We're not going to default. We just won't default. I mean, there are ways of not defaulting even if you don't raise the debt ceiling, and even if you don't fund the government.
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I think the irony ... is that I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government.
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It's a rare human being who understands intellectually and emotionally the freedoms contained within our Constitution and the right of every human being to make decisions about their own lives consistent with their own conscience and without the interference of government.
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The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
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What Reagan ushered in was a skepticism toward government solutions to every problem. I don't think that has changed
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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
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Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.
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Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for the expansion of government power. What fairness means in practice is that third parties -- busybodies -- can prevent mutual accommodations by others.
