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Government Quotes
"Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us?"
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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
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"Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them."
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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
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"I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could."
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"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it."
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"Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves."
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"We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target."
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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
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"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."
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"The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years."
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"I think that when we look out with our underfunded liabilities and our national debt over $14 trillion, I think if we are part of that movement to get our government spending under control, I think that would be a tremendous legacy to leave."
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"We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
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"A government that thinks it can remedy personal failure is an intrusion in everybody's life. No law is going to cure a human's lack of physical or mental effectiveness. I'd rather see democracy promote strength than reward weakness."
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"This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia."
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"What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."
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"The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America."
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"The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God."
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"What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it."
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"We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down."
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"Mankind's problems can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is world government."
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"I'm relieved that the state of the Marines' readiness will remain high."
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"Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people?"
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"So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations."
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"I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'"
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"The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not."
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"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
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"I am neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people, nor am I willing to lay a tax simply for protection when the Government does not need the money."
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"It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience."
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"I think the inherent right of the Government to lie to save itself when facing a nuclear disaster is basic."
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"Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right."
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"No matter what your religion, you should try to become a government program, for then you will have everlasting life."
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"Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion."
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"If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy."
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"There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement."
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"With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem."
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"The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?"
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"It's inevitable that the company come back."
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"Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves."
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"It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing."
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"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."
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"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits."
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"My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government."
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"What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work."
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"It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual."
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"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."
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"The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government."
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"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear."
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"How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state consists in the subjects obeying their prince, the prince obeying the laws, and the laws being equitable and always directed to the good of the public?"
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"I am pleased to report that Texas is known for having one of the strongest set of open government laws in our Nation. And ever since that experience, I have long believed that our federal government could use 'a little Texas sunshine.'"
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