Top 1200 American Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

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

Much worse than the unavoidable inefficiencies of large government is the failure to fund the government we need.

The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

Madison understood that if you want to protect rights from government abuse, you would be wise not to give government the power in the first place that can be used to abuse rights. That is a lesson we have forgotten. As we have asked government to do more and more for us, we have forgotten that a government big enough to give us everything we want will be powerful enough to take everything we have.

The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

A limited government is much more likely to be a competent government.

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.

We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't 'We The People' anymore.

Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt.

People who don't believe in government are likely to defy our government.

I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for limited government, but I think the government should decide what women do with their bodies.

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.

History teaches us that the capacity of things to get worse is limitless. Roman history suggests that the short, happy life of the American republic may be coming to its end... the US will probably maintain a facade of constitutional government and drift along until financial bankruptcy overtakes it.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.

The oil companies are regulated by the federal government. They can't drill on land nor in American waters without permission from the feds. Many Republicans want to drill baby drill but what's the point if all the oil goes to China? Increased production obviously doesn't mean lower prices for us.

The government is not doing anything to help the country to heal. The government is just making cosmetic changes.

One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over.

We have a government-to-government relationship with tribes, and they should have that opportunity to weigh in on important decisions that affect them.

Now we are in the second term of the government of a united nation and the government has done very well. One thing they have done, one thing people could not be blind to, was the achievement this government has made in giving human beings dignity, which they did not enjoy before. They now have dignity.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird!

The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.

Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how -- the nature of the government in which people live.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

I want to work closely with the government but it doesn't mean I become so weak and just toe the government line.

As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer.

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an African American halo. He had an Afro halo. He was a kid who was capable of embodying all of the high possibilities and the deep griefs that besieged the African American psyche.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

The best government is not the one that you can serve in the longest, but the government that's closest to the people.

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

How many watched the President's speech last night? [half-hearted audience applause] How many watched American Idol ? [thundering applause] Okay, there you go! You get the government you deserve.

There might be people who have never even tweeted before who are just working on their great American tweet. It will be so good that we'll all have to stop Twitter right away. I would like to write the great American tweet. I don't think the great American tweet has been written yet. We'd know.

In North Korea the math book says, you know, there are four American bastards. You kill two of them. Then how many American bastards left to kill. a And as a child I had to say, "Two American bastards." And that was my education.

The other night, President Bush's press conference was pre-empted by 'American Idol.' You know the difference between President Bush and 'American Idol?' See, on 'American Idol,' the one with the most votes wins.

The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

We believe that in times like these we should turn to each other, not on each other. We believe that government has a role to play, not in solving every problem in everybody's life but in helping people help themselves to the American dream. That's what Democrats believe.

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

It's the government's job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it's the government's duty to inspire confidence.

Well, I certainly hope the Democrats participate. I continue to think that some things transcend politics like the murder of four of our fellow citizens and whether or not you trust government. That is not a red or blue issue. That is an American issue. As for whether or not they boycott, I hope they don't.

Most of us are aware of the sacrificial slaughter of Bear Sterns. Some people call it a bailout, but I call it a handout - a government handout to some of the richest people on Earth, paid for by American taxpayers.

I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.

The truth is, our democracy is stronger when more people participate and when everyone's views are heard. More participation not only leads to a more representative government, but also more thoughtful policies that better leverage the strengths - and better address the challenges - of the American mosaic.

In any war, mistakes happen on the ground; this is not the policy of the government. We are a government that functions according to laws.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.