Top 1200 Democratic Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

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

But take the Russia issue. You open up the convention, and you have got a report that the Democratic Party has been hacked by the Russians, e-mails, the e-mails of the Democratic Party, which is a headline and words that you don't want, if you're Hillary Clinton's campaign.And Donald Trump immediately takes the story and basically steps on the advantage he has and say, well, the Russians, who am I to tell [Vladimir] Putin? You know, the Russians ought to come in and continue to hack our - and find out where the e-mails are.

The federal government, state governments will not do without that tax revenue from tobacco no matter what. I've always thought it was one of the most contradictory setups that we have, because everything said publicly about the product is intended to besmirch it, impugn it, and do the same thing to the people that use it. And yet here's the government scoring, I mean, you want to talk about obscene profits, the government doesn't do a damn thing but stick its hand in. The government taxes tobacco at every stage. It taxes tobacco when the farmer's thinking about planting it.

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

But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

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

If people want consultative government, the price is increased complexity and delay in arriving at decisions. If they want speed of government, then they must accept a greater degree of authoritarianism. I suspect that the real answer is that most people prefer the latter so long, that is, as government's decisions conform with their own views.

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

If you were to ask me whether you need a dictatorship to run India, No, you do not. Whether you need a powerful person who believes in concentrating power, No, you do not. If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

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

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

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

There's one other interesting thing about Western democracy. It didn't arrive at the end point that Karl Marx thought it would that wealth would become more and more concentrated in the hands of the few, that eventually the few would be killed by the many who were deprived, and that a different kind of government would then develop. What happened in Western democracy is that we began to understand that a democratic system can't work if half of the people are starving and the other half are dieting.

I have... submitted the resignation of the government, and I have declared that I will not be a candidate to head the (next) government.

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

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

All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it.

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

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

They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes, that want of government, is any new kind of government.

The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.

Am I disappointed in Barack Obama? Yes, I'm very disappointed in Barack Obama and I'm disappointed in the Democratic administration and in the two Democratic houses of Congress for two years that bailed out Wall Street when they should have bailed out Main Street.

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

The role of the government is not to solve religious or sectarian or ethnic problems. These are age-old. I don't think any government of the day can solve all differences. But the government of the day can deliver to our citizens and show our citizens that they are equal in front of the law.

Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one. Every now and then when I was in government, I would remind my associates that "When we start thinking of government as 'us' instead of 'them,' we've been here too long." By that I mean that elected officeholders need to retain a certain skepticism about the perfectibility of government.

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

It isn't possible to give government just a little control over the economy and our lives. Once we cede that power to government, it uses the power to take more from us. That's why every year the government controls more of our lives.

Government can't do everything, but there is a role for government and smart policy, especially in equalizing opportunities for folks.

We don't want our government building files on what people think about their government.

If you are really interested in making government work, you should have the experience of working in government.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a living for them and his government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people

Although we can talk about an Indonesian democracy, or we can talk about democratic elections and democratic rituals - the trappings of democracy - we can't genuinely talk about democracy in Indonesia because there is not rule of law, and democracy without rule of law is a nonsense.

Nothing lasts forever, whether it's Greece, Rome or the British Empire. It doesn't mean that America has to end. The country could be reshaped and reimagined in a way that is even more democratic and less imperial in nature. We're trying to radically reshape the nation in ways that are more just and fairer. That's what I mean when I say that empires eventually fall. I'm not calling for the end of America. I'm just calling for a reimagination of its democratic possibilities.

I've led a life working at every level of government, from Congress to local government.

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

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

Many European parties, including the conventional parties in France, no longer have the ability to keep people together. And in terms of the coalition government, I am convinced that Angela Merkel has the necessary will and ambition. I want to be very cautious with my statements about her coalition negotiations, but support for Europe is part of the DNA of both the Greens and the Free Democratic Party. I was very pleased that the heads of both parties spoke out positively about the European project.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

Historically, it's very unusual after a change of government for the new government not to be returned.

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

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

An alliance or coalition between Government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against......Every new and successful example therefore of a PERFECT SEPARATION between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance........religion and government will exist in greater purity, without (rather) than with the aid of government.

If I was in government and running government, I think I would use the government data, because I wouldn't know where else to look, quite frankly. And if I didn't like that data, I would work hard to make sure it got better and better and better, whether it was at the state or local or federal level.

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

Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.

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