Government Quotes
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We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.
Sharron Angle
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Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.
Thomas Sowell
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The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it seriously.
Eqbal Ahmad
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Government regulators are another name for police.
James Cook
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I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices.
Paul LePage
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Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous.
Mike Rogers
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In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia.
Nat Hentoff
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The bottom line is that the government has artificially mitigated lenders’ risk, and it has done so on the perverse, altruistic premise that “society” has a moral duty to increase home ownership among low-income Americans.
Yaron Brook
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It is sometimes argued that one of the benefits of legalizing addictive drugs is that they could be taxed, and the government revenues enhanced. From this perspective, this would be the only valid case against legalization.
Walter Block
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Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.
Reince Priebus
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A functioning police state needs no police.
William S. Burroughs
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The leader is best, When people are hardly aware of his existence, Not so good when people praise his government, Less good when people stand in fear, Worst, when people are contemptuous. Fail to honor people, and they will fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who speaks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, The people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu
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I was involved with sports and student government, the regular stuff. I liked movies and all, but I did love the singing and putting on musicals, and I was always comfortable with that. I liked it.
Ken Howard
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Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.
William Weld
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People who never seen to learn claim the government can be made more efficient.
James Cook
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Government has not been good about being good stewards of policy.
Suzan DelBene
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Government should have drones. Industries, companies can have drones. Everyone else doesn't need drones. It's just going to create mischief. They are going to be crashing the planes, they're going to be spying on neighbors. People don't need drones.
Gary B Smith
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Defeating terrorism in Libya can only be achieved through the political and institutional determination of a united Libyan government, which will need the strong and unequivocal support from the international community in confronting the myriad challenges facing Libya.
Bernardino Leon
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Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
Steve Allen
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While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.
George Washington
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The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
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You know, Floridians, we've paid into Social Security. Like a lot of other government programs, we sent money to D.C. We expect to get that money back. We expect that our Social Security is real. So, we have to fix Social Security.
Rick Scott
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Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.
Abraham Lincoln
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Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.
George Washington