Top 1200 City Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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.

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

Lob City doesn't exist anymore. Lob City is done.

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

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

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

My theory was that a city without a newspaper is a city without a soul.

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.

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

I've spent a lot of time in L.A., it's always reminded me a bit of Jo'burg, which is a deeply segregated city. And L.A. is really like an apartheid city; white people just don't go to South Central. It's just a different world.

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

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

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

Imagine a safe city with all the affordable housing we need, a city that uses its resources to help lift the marginalized up and into stability. This is the Portland I imagine. This is the Portland I dream about every single day.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

You can't just put a bubble over the Westside of L.A. and pretend like there aren't other problems. The way that we are failing the kids in this city through our education system has a profound effect on everybody in the city, and I'm not prepared just to turn a blind eye to that.

If a sanctuary city means that our police department does not enforce federal immigration laws, then we are one. But declaring yourself a 'sanctuary city' also signals to a lot of people that you are protecting hard-core criminals, which I don't, and I don't believe in.

China has some cities, traditional cities, with a long history. They are so beautiful, and they were planned so smartly. I call them gardens on the city scale. For example, Beijing has mountains, waters, lakes, bridges, towers. It was a very poetic city.

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.

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

I was in New York City for September 11th, and I was there for the 2003 blackout. I think in hindsight, you get a real perspective as to how unique those moments of crisis are in a place like New York City.

I do pack a different dress for each city, and if there are two events in a city, I have to pack two. Even so, I am able to travel with only one large suitcase and a small hanging bag for the fluffier dresses.

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

Manchester is obviously is a huge footballing city with Manchester City and Manchester United there - and I really like this accent because my agent is also from Manchester and my girlfriend's family is from Manchester.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.

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

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

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

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 south in general kind of has this Lilly Pulitzer, light pink and green vibe to it. Atlanta being a large city has a variety and people dress more hipster. You definitely know what area of the city you're in depending on how the girls dress.

Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures , culture and market, national history and everyday stories. It takes 500 years to create a city, 50 to create a neighborhood.

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

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.

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

Like I always tell people, Buffalo is closer to Toronto than New York City. We an hour and a half away - that's the next major city to us is Toronto. Buffalo's connected to Canada.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.