Top 1200 Government And Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings.

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

If someone builds a fortune, it belongs to him, not the government. An entitled government undermines liberty.

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.

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

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

Many [business] people focus on what is static, black and white. Yet great algorithms can be rewritten. A business process can be defined better. A business model can be copied. But the speed of execution is dynamic within you and can never be copied. When you have an idea, figure out the pieces you need quickly, go to market, believe in it, and continue to iterate.

Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.

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

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

I want my testimony to stand on that point. But I would point out that Zona Research Inc. showed we have increased market share among business users, educational users, and government users over the past several months - and that's more recent than the IDC report.

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

The government is not doing anything to help the country to heal. The government is just making cosmetic changes.

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

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

Spiritual government means a pure government that doesn't discriminate on the lines of caste, creed, or religion.

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

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.

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.

I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government.

In France, President Francois Hollande is leveraging the next wave of the Internet to jumpstart economic reforms and create jobs for hundreds of thousands of citizens. A historically socialist government, France has had the courage to quickly implement unique partnerships with the business community to drive entrepreneurial spirit and thinking.

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

As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.

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

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

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

The Tea Party folks may be sincere, loyal citizens, but their notions about how the economy works are exactly that: mere notions. Their core notion is that government needs to do nothing more than get out of the way of business in order for the economy to boom and bloom.

Trust me, I've been to countries where there's no government. And our government's pretty damned good.

Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.

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

Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government.

If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

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.

Look at the experience of 2008. Who are the countries who negotiated the storms of 2008 best? They were the countries which were able to sit business with labor at the table, with government, and work out a way of getting through the storm. And I don't think that is a controversial statement.

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

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

You have tens, hundreds of thousands of people in government, and just as many among contractors, who feel totally comfortable writing at the top of the document "internal use only," "official use only," and a million other synonyms, all of which amount to "none of your business" to the public.

They are trying to lock up as many of us up as possible to put us in penitentiaries for free labor. You have the government paying private prisons to feed and clothe each inmate, turning it into a damn business. And African Americans are set up for getting arrested.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Our government is committed to helping our young people develop the skills and training they need to succeed. Through our Summer Company program, students can launch a business, become employers, and gain an advantage in the highly competitive global economy - all while still in school.

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

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

Paul Ryan says he's for smaller government, and he's funded every big government idea that there is.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Republican government - self-government by the people - is at the heart of what it means to be free.

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

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

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

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