Top 1200 City Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.

If the Tea Party gets its way, there will be less government - which is great for the elites. They don't need the government.

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

All the time, you take a look at what government rules are, so you can minimize the impact of government regulations. That's just smart business.

The city grows like a cancer; I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red; it is an insatiable white louse which must die eventually of inanition. I am going to starve the white louse which is eating me up. I am going to die as a city in order to become again a man. Therefore I close my ears, my eyes, my mouth.

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.

Do you people not care about this bogus government shutdown garbage? Back in 2013 Rob Portman, the senator from Ohio, Republican, suggested the End Government Shutdowns Act. So the End Government Shutdowns Act introduced by Senator Portman, the bill, you know what this would have done? Well, the Democrats shot it down. The Democrats don't want to get rid of the weapon they have by threatening a government shutdown and knowing the Republicans are gonna get blamed for it.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people.

The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.

Those who claim that to leave the E.U. would damage the City are the very same as those who in the past confidently predicted, with a classic failure of understanding, that the City would be gravely damaged if the U.K. failed to adopt the euro as its currency.

The Modi government believes that the industrialist, the capitalist, has to pay for the assets of the government which belong to the people of India.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.

Government shutdowns do not actually become what the term implies. Two-thirds of the government cannot shut down. We're only talking about the third of government that's discretionary spending, and even at that, nobody loses their jobs, and nobody loses their Thanksgiving turkey. The whole thing has resulted from the Republican Party thinking they bought the farm back in 1995.

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.

I'm not in favor of no government. You do need a government. But by doing so many things that the government has no business doing, it cannot do those things which it alone can do well. There's no other institution in my opinion that can provide us with protection of our life and liberty. However, the government performs that basic function poorly today, precisely because it is devoting too much of its efforts and spending too much of our income on things which are harmful. So I have no doubt that that's the major single problem we face.

All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

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

I believe that the role of government is for the government to protect the God-given rights we have and to ensure that we live as free as possible.

My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no praise, no reward. That world, that city, often kills them for their brave service.

We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don't have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That's how great our traffic flows.

I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.

My favorites are Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, but those are a little off in terms of getting Detroit right on the head. But of course, you know, "Dancing In The Streets." You can't forget the Motor City. And we can't forget the Motor City.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!

'Hispanic' was the term adopted by the government - by the Nixon government in particular - and that made the community feel it was being branded.

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.

As long as I am running this Government I will run the Government as I see fit... as I believe in, based on my philosophy.

Carol City has its hot moments, and it has its cool moments. If you were from one area of Carol City, people didn't mess with you.

I love New York, but it's a rough city. It's not dangerous now the way it was in the 70's or the 80's, but it's still a rough city. It's hard to hack it there. Life is harder than it is on the West Coast. To be able to deal with that, you have to have a lot of aspirational feelings pinned on being there.

You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another.

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

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.

We're proud of the work we're doing to make Chicago a great city for people of all ages. Nothing's more important than keeping in mind the needs of older adults - and how valuable a role they play in improving the city, based on their amazing collective talent and wisdom.

It is correct that securing the border is a government function, but when the government fails, it has a specific and significant impact on individual landowners.

A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.

In America, we have a government that some people believe is too big and overbearing, yet, when it comes to guns, we might as well have no government at all.

I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

The most encouraging trend of our time is the widespread loss of faith in government. No longer do people look to the government as the great problem solver, economic planner, social unifier, or cultural czar. The government is more likely to be seen for what it is, a haven for grafters, liars, and would-be tyrants. Americans, like the Russians, no longer believe anything until it is officially denied.

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

Without computers, the government would be unable to function at the level of effectiveness and efficiency that we have come to expect. . . . Today's government uses computers which are capable of cranking out millions of documents per day without any regard whatsoever for their content, thereby freeing government employees for more important responsibilities, such as not answering their phones.

Being here in the city of Atlanta, a great city, being part of the Hawks organization for me has been great.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups.