Government Quotes

• Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery. A few stirred-up women brought about women's voting. The Populist movement, the Progressive movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement - the examples go on and on of 'little people' getting together and telling the truth about their lives. They made our government act.

  

  Unita Zelma Blackwell
  • Writing
  • War
  • Together

• No power in the country can dissolve the government.

  

  Ashraf Ghani
  • Power
  • Government
  • Dissolve

• And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Government
  • Commitment
  • Surprises

• The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Giving
  • Firsts
  • Doe

• If India's government is to be an institution integrated with her people's lives, if it is to be a true democracy and not a superimposed western institution staged in Indian dress, religion must have an important and recognized place in it with impartiality and reverence for all the creeds and denominations prevailing in India.

  

  C. Rajagopalachari
  • Democracy
  • Religion
  • India

• We have to convince people that the handouts - just taking a few little handouts, where you have a subsistent living, where you never grow, just get a little check and a few food stamps, it will keep you on the plantation for the rest of your life, that's not a life. That's not living. It is not good enough. It is not acceptable. We have to educate our people that that is no longer good. You have to get off the plantation, off the government plantation.

  

  Elbert Guillory
  • Life
  • Food
  • Convince

• The primary method by which governments increase their control is by creating fear.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Government
  • Creating
  • Increase

• America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Needs
  • Jobs
  • Offers

• For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Government
  • Stability
  • Elections

• Smoking is a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.

  

  Auguste Piccard
  • Government
  • Smoking
  • Banned

• The reason there are so many gay people now is because it's a chemical warfare operation. I have the government documents where they said they're going to encourage homosexuality with chemicals so people don't have children.

  

  Alex Jones
  • Children
  • Homosexuality
  • Documents

• Constitutional provisions are not barriers to government misconduct. At best, they can be speed bumps.

  

  Arnold Kling
  • Government
  • Barriers
  • Constitutional

• We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Free
  • Right
  • Minority

• Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Violence
  • Begets
  • Kill off

• It would be a very odd chancellor of any UK government that insisted on a course of action that cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds, that blew a massive hole in their balance of payments and, because assets and liabilities go hand in hand, would potentially leave the rest of the UK shouldering the entirety of UK debt.

  

  Nicola Sturgeon
  • Action
  • Balance
  • Cost

• Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.

  

  William Pfaff
  • Believe
  • Democracy
  • Republican

• What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Government
  • Opinion
  • Supported

• Reagan said that government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem. And he was going to dismantle that government. Well, long story short, he failed to do that. He built up the military to a much greater status, more people in it, and actually more employees after the end of the Reagan administration. And, to achieve his objectives, he did some of the very same things that Trump is doing to achieve his. What Ronald Reagan really wanted to dismantle was the welfare state. And he had limited success in doing that.

  

  Brian Balogh
  • Problems
  • Solution
  • Reagan

• The Declaration of Independence was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of government, to secure the rights of individuals and to effect their safety and happiness. In modern society, no individual can do this alone. So government is not a necessary evil but a necessary good.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Secure
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Modern Society

• The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Democracy
  • Spirit
  • Aristocracy

• It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Important
  • Done

• Sometimes there's not a direct transfer of skills from business to government, but sometimes what happened in business would be really bad for government.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Business
  • Skills
  • Direct transfer

• I have seen businesses and government come together to provide women entrepreneurs with the training they need to better access markets, take advantage of trade agreements, and in the process grow businesses, jobs, and GDP. These are partnerships that transform lives.

  

  Melanne Verveer
  • Advantage
  • Businesses
  • Entrepreneurs

• We are putting Robert Mugabe and his government on notice. When we go to the next elections it will be impossible for him to rig.

  

  Arthur Mutambara
  • Government
  • Elections
  • Rig

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