Top 1200 American Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government.

One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.

Government is basically a parasite, and if the host doesn't grow, then government suffers.

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

Paul Ryan says he's for smaller government, and he's funded every big government idea that there is.

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government.

Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.

The real struggle between an American government and the people was one of power, which was settled when they designed their Constitution, which conceded the sovereignty of the people when it came to politics, and the sovereignty of the consumer when it came to economics.

If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

Spiritual government means a pure government that doesn't discriminate on the lines of caste, creed, or religion.

Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.

All this anti-Christian rhetoric that you see coming from the government, all this anti-Christian push, is not really an attack on Christianity. It's an effort to make you realize that God is your government. Your government is God.

The American founding is not just about a group of people, a group of men. It is about an ideal: Both a vision and understanding of the very essence of democracy, constitutional government, a representative republic, and the remarkably powerful concept of being endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.

Those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed he Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God of heaven could find on the face of the earth. They were choice spirits . . . noble spirits before God.

The mission statement of the RSC is to foster a constitutionally bound limited government, it's to have a strong national defense, it's to protect private property rights and it's to support American values. That's what the mission statement is. There's nothing in the mission statement about trying to hold leadership accountable.

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.

The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world.

My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms.

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things.

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation

Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.

I'm against government giving money to artists, but I'm not against artists taking money. Just like I don't have a moral problem with people taking healthcare from the government, but I don't think government should give it.

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.

Republican government - self-government by the people - is at the heart of what it means to be free.

I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government.

I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.

We need a lifetime ban on government officials lobbying for a foreign government.

In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American.

American national security and American economic interests, of course - every president, every secretary of state - that is the primary goal. As you are in this job and in the work, you begin to see, though, that in the long run, both American economic interests and American national security are better served when there are other decent countries in the world who are both your allies and even when your adversaries are acting more decently.

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.

We want a national emissions trading scheme, the Government does not and has rejected one for years. We want to boost the mandatory renewable energies target, the Government has failed to do that. We want a national demand side management strategy for the country to reduce electricity consumption and the Government, up until now, has done very little on that score.

Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest degree, but solely for the purpose of protecting ourselves. We cast no aspersions on any race or creed, but we must remember that every object of our institutions of society and government will fail unless America be kept American.

Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.

ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.

People want government to solve problems, but government is often the cause of the problem.

We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.

I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.

If the government decides to become a tyrannical government, our guns are to protect us against that.

Markets do not run better when manufacturing shifts to China largely because of the actions of its government. Nor do they become more efficient when Chinese companies are given special privileges in global markets, while American companies must struggle to compete with unfairly traded goods.

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government.

Government! Government! What do I get for all I give, I'd like to know! Potholes and bombs!

It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

'Let's Move!' is not about having government tell people what to do, because government doesn't have all the answers.

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

If someone builds a fortune, it belongs to him, not the government. An entitled government undermines liberty.

I would bring the government back to what it was intended to be - a plain economical government.

Trust me, I've been to countries where there's no government. And our government's pretty damned good.