Top 1200 Forms Of Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to liberty.

The government should stop meddling in the business of the farmers, who would actually still be living ina desert if not for government meddling.

I don't trust the church or the government, and anything the church or the government tells me I assume to be a lie or a conspiracy, until proven true.

I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.

The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases. Government that's not particularly caring and is hands-off is not particularly inspiring.

If God is in fact separated from the government, then we can never possibly have a godly government. There's no way for America to be good if she's not godly.

It's fair to say that the policy and character of my government would be, or the government which I lead, would be very different to that of President Trump.

Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.

The government can become so elitist and concentrate on elitist interests. To help the government, you must constantly hold its attention.

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

My first goal as governor is to restore public trust in state government by changing the culture of state government.

They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.

The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.

We're not like the American administration, we're not social media administration or government. We are a government that deals with reality. When we have evidence, we'll announce it.

I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity or of religion in general. But atheism that consists entirely in vacuous arguments afloat on oceans of historical ignorance, made turbulent by storms of strident self-righteousness, is as contemptible as any other form of dreary fundamentalism. And it is sometimes difficult, frankly, to be perfectly generous in one’s response to the sort of invective currently fashionable among the devoutly undevout, or to the sort of historical misrepresentations it typically involves.

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

One of the things government should be around for is to deal with catastrophes. It should do that well. To me, that's a government function, and we shouldn't be playing political games with it.

I had to sign the paper to shut down the government. It's terrible.... [But] what the shutdown showed many, many people is the importance of the role of government. And as frustrated [as people get with] Washington, there are so many things [the government does] that are so important to people's lives every day. The panda cam, paying small businesses their loans - these are all things that shut down.

A federal government with enough money to buy iPads for local gym teachers is not a federal government that has been cut to the bone.

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes. Catholicism is accused of being too much like all the other religions; Protestantism of being insufficiently like a religion at all. Hence Plato, with his transcendent Forms, is the doctor of Protestants; Aristotle, with his immanent Forms, the doctor of Catholics.

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

Reagan used to say that 'we're a country with a government.' Well, now we're a government with a country, and we're making everybody else that way, too.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us

The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.

Beauty is everywhere and it comes in all different forms. Many times I don't find a size zero girl amazing, I find her really shockingly thin or small, and I think that beauty comes in all different forms. Beauty is about how you feel. There are plenty of people who are amazing to look at who are super beautiful, and then there are plenty of people who are easy to look at who are not beautiful at all, they open their mouth or they have an attitude or they are cruel, and they look hideous suddenly.

I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa.

I was a minister in the Vajpayee government. Atalji wanted to do so many things. But, since he was heading a coalition government, he could not do all those things.

I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.

Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity.

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

If the government were obliged to come to the people for money instead of vice-versa, the people would keep government under control and operate their economy satisfactorily with prosperity and peace resulting. The peoples of the nations do not make war. For them peace is the natural and permanent order. Wars are planned and perpetrated by politicians and their diplomats; and the money power of government is the means by which the people are maneuvered into wars.

Vis a vis the Golan Heights, the present government of Israel, under my leadership, is the first government that is ready to speak about a withdrawal.

Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government makes you think that it all comes from them.

The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

Why are liberals who want the government to regulate their health care upset that the government wants to regulate their internet?

Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion is about as intellectually challenging as the average self-help book. (Like personal development literature, mass market books about spirituality and religion celebrate emotionalism and denigrate reason. They elevate the "truths" of myths and parables over empiricism.) In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.

When the government controls a limited supply, the government gets to decide who gets the vaccines and who doesn't. In some cases, who lives and who doesn't.

For us, the government of Venezuelan Nicolas Maduro is not a government that allows democratic plurality. It does not allow for there to be a real opposition, and that is not democratic.

Regarding our links with the Russian government, Severstal is a private company with no government participation. We are answerable to our shareholders.

Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective way to drive change in the federal government.

I'm not here to say that the government is always right, but when the government tells you to do something, I'm sure you would all agree that I think you all recognize that is something you need to do.

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

I actually don't believe in big government, and half the time I'm never quite sure I believe in government, generally.

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Government doesn't have to be the enemy, but too much government has produced a new kind of inequality in America: opportunity inequality.

The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

BJP is not going to the people only to form a government. We have come to the people to give stability and a development oriented government.

While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

I arose and spoke substantially as follows: ... I love the government and the constitution of the United States, but I do not love the damned rascals who administer the government.

Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.