Top 1200 Government Aid Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government.

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

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.

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

What are you so mad about? That we still have a government? We still have “traffic lights.” We’re sorry. The government’s not perfect, but some people wish it was better, not gone.

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

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.

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people ... and ... becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression ... it is a ... sacred obligation to their posterity to abolish such government, and create another in its stead.

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?

My government will make efforts to realize the farming potential of rain-fed and dry land areas by ensuring healthy participation by all stakeholders and convergence of various government sponsored programs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I have no interest in increasing the size of government. I just want to make sure we have got a smart government that is regulating, for example, the financial institutions smartly, so I don't have to engage in any kind of bank bailouts.

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.

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

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

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

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

While we have a Constitution that is very strong in the sense that we are not gonna have a religion that's sanctioned by the government, it doesn't mean that we need to have a separation between government and religion.

In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government, but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.

As a businessperson, I dont 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.

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

The government is responsible for the violence, as long as they don't stop it. And if we have to get violent to protect ourselves, then it's the government that should be charged with the crime, because we're only upholding a law that they've been unable to uphold.

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

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 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.

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.

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

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.

When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate.

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

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.

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

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

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

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

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.

Government isn't there just to administer life support to failing markets. Without the government, many of those markets would not even exist.

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

We have an extreme rightwing government in Britain, although it's called the Labour government. That's confused a lot of people, but it's confusing them less and less.