Top 1200 Government And Politics Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

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.

In the French culture, they talk politics. I didn't find it was part of our culture to have political arguments at the table. My husband's family will get into major politics, and it's not an aggressive thing. It's so interesting and you learn so much, whether it's Right or Left, and that to me has been really great.

We have a government-to-government relationship with tribes, and they should have that opportunity to weigh in on important decisions that affect them.

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.

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

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

I'm in politics, but I'm not an expert in politics.

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

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

The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.

The best politics is no politics.

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

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that's what we have to change first. We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans.

I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in the study of politics, math has come into the picture. We can no longer pretend that we just speculate about politics; we need to look at this in a rigorous way.

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

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.

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.

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.

One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.

One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

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

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

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

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

The best government is not the one that you can serve in the longest, but the government that's closest to the people.

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I think it's perfectly possible for us to stay outside of power politics, or parliamentary politics, and speak about things like the American hegemony in the region or speak about the unjust war on terror that's been brought to our borders.

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

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

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

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

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.

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

Politics now is fractured. The rising tide of nationalism and populism threatens to consume our politics. Whether it is Trump or Putin abroad, or Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage at home, our political order is increasingly dominated by forces that seek to divide us.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse them. . . . Christians have been exceedingly guilty in this matter. But the time has come when they must act differently. . . . Christians seem to act as if they thought God did not see what they do in politics. But I tell you He does see it - and He will bless or curse this nation according to the course they Christians take in politics.

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