Top 1200 Bad Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.

They think that the cure to big government is to have bigger government... the only effective cure is to reduce the scope of government - get government out of the business.

When it comes to partisan politics, everyone is a hypocrite. And all they care about is whether it hurts or helps them ... Is it good or bad for the Democrats? Is it good or bad for the Republicans? Is it good or bad for Jews, or good or bad for blacks, or is it good or bad for women? Is it good or bad for men? Is it good or bad for gays? That's the way people think about issues today. There is very little discussion of enduring principles.

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.

I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

What we consider is that the Venezuelan government is not a leftist government, has nothing of a leftist government. It is an oppressor, an oppressive government, it is a murderer - he murders them - the peasant fights in the region of Falcon, for example, where there are military advisers of the U.S.

Government has only one religion - India first! Government has one holy book - the Constitution. The Government must be immersed in only one Bhakti- Bharat Bhakti! The Government's only strength is Jan Shakti! Government's only ritual is the well being of the 125 crore Indians! The only code of conduct of the Government should be 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas!

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse.

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.

A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues, call shots as she sees them....Many bad decisions are made by men in government because it is good for them personally to make bad public decisions.

Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.

There are bad preppies and bad priests and bad humanitarians. Any group can have its bad apple.

One of the reasons some of the advocates of ever larger government and more government intrusiveness get nervous about discussions of the actual cost of government is that they fear if the people had a discussion about what government costs, the true cost of taxes, that they might not want as much government as they are presently getting.

You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can tell you. ... government practices deceptive advertising. And the merest glance at the federal budget is enough to convict the government of perjury, extortion, and fraud. ... in a nutshell: government should be against the law. Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

Government is promoting bad behavior... Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages? This is America!

Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.

A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen... Except the act of writing.

If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government... The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.

Theft and corruption in the private sector is as bad as that in government and must be dealt with decisively by law enforcement agencies.

The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.

Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.

There are no bad boys. There is only bad environment, bad training, bad example, bad thinking.

I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.

Temporary nationalization of the banks that are in very bad shape would mean basically that the government is the temporary owner. I always believe that the government should focus on its comparative advantages, and banking is not one of them. It should, therefore, if it nationalizes banks, sell them back to the private sector.

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

Once we realize that government doesn't work, we'll know that the only way to improve government is by reducing its size - by doing away with laws, by getting rid of programs, by making government spend and tax less, by reducing government as far as we can.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!

[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really top down solutions that require government-to-government support and aid.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

Government grows despite repeated failures to serve the public well because government's purpose no longer is to serve the public. Government now serves primarily the interests of those who work for the government.

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.

We want a good government that works. Let us rise above caste divisions and nepotism and pledge to elect a government that is development oriented. Delhi needs a stable government and a strong government

Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.

The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.

Macri didn't understand anything. It wasn't a bad election, it was a terrible government.

In any socialist government, they must destroy all alliances other than your alliance to the government, and they want the government to become your God. That for you to totally depend upon government. So we become slaves to government, through taxation, through regulation, through all kinds of restrictions, that makes us not free anymore.

The real problem is that "limited government" invariably leads to unlimited government. If history is to be any guide and current experience is to be any guide, we in the United States 200 years ago started out with the notion of limited government - virtually no government interference - and we now have a massive quasi-totalitarian government.

In college, I had bad hair, bad clothes, bad teeth, and bad skin. That was not a great combination for being a sports announcer.

The assumption that everyone in government is a bad actor imperils our democracy.

Government is not infallible. Government is only an executive control, a centralized authority for the purpose of expressing the will of the people; before you have a government you must have the people. Without the people there can be no government. The government must be, therefore, an expression of the will of the people.

The government is promoting bad behavior.

The government is always looking for something that appears more dangerous than itself, and these criminals seem to fit the bill. Never mind that it was the government that promised but failed to protect us. It was the government that prevented the airlines from protecting themselves. It was the government that so badly botched the rescue operations. It was the government that had stirred up the hate that led to the terrorism.

Ideology that believes government is bad, and that public institutions and places are not valuable, is as destructive as corporate greed.

Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to intervene and make some of our decisions for us. From what galaxy government is going to hire creatures who do not make mistakes is a question they leave unanswered.

I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.