Top 1200 Government And Politics Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

As long as I am running this Government I will run the Government as I see fit... as I believe in, based on my philosophy.

I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space

Elites are inevitable in politics. That is how politics is going to work. The question is, are your elites responsible, public-spirited? Do they think about the interests of others, not just themselves? And the story of Western politics since the beginning of the century is that as elites become more separated, more selfish, as they leave behind their populations and don't think about them, they become discredited. And the people look for alternatives. But the alternative is worse. Those rules of the game protect us all. And they are more precious than almost any political outcome.

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

Without computers, the government would be unable to function at the level of effectiveness and efficiency that we have come to expect. . . . Today's government uses computers which are capable of cranking out millions of documents per day without any regard whatsoever for their content, thereby freeing government employees for more important responsibilities, such as not answering their phones.

We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't 'We The People' anymore.

In America, we have a government that some people believe is too big and overbearing, yet, when it comes to guns, we might as well have no government at all.

Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt.

Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

All the time, you take a look at what government rules are, so you can minimize the impact of government regulations. That's just smart business.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

Do you people not care about this bogus government shutdown garbage? Back in 2013 Rob Portman, the senator from Ohio, Republican, suggested the End Government Shutdowns Act. So the End Government Shutdowns Act introduced by Senator Portman, the bill, you know what this would have done? Well, the Democrats shot it down. The Democrats don't want to get rid of the weapon they have by threatening a government shutdown and knowing the Republicans are gonna get blamed for it.

I believe that the role of government is for the government to protect the God-given rights we have and to ensure that we live as free as possible.

If the Tea Party gets its way, there will be less government - which is great for the elites. They don't need the government.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

I'm not in favor of no government. You do need a government. But by doing so many things that the government has no business doing, it cannot do those things which it alone can do well. There's no other institution in my opinion that can provide us with protection of our life and liberty. However, the government performs that basic function poorly today, precisely because it is devoting too much of its efforts and spending too much of our income on things which are harmful. So I have no doubt that that's the major single problem we face.

'Hispanic' was the term adopted by the government - by the Nixon government in particular - and that made the community feel it was being branded.

In 2009, my father wanted me to join politics. I told him, 'Why should I jump into the dirt and grime of politics when I can have politicians come to me as owner of a media group?' Then my father gave me an ultimatum.

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

People who don't believe in government are likely to defy our government.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Whenever poetry and politics are mentioned in the same breath, we tend to miss the point entirely - as I often have - and we ask ourselves whether poetry and politics even belong together, because they're often so poorly married that we think of them as oil and water.

For authoritarians such as Lenin and Žižek, the dichotomy in politics is state power or no power, but I refuse to concede that these are the only options. Genuine politics is about the movement between these poles, and it takes place through the creation of what I call "interstitial distance" within the state.

I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability.

Politics is different than movies. Politics are controlled by leaders. Leaders of every country have different interests. And they try to explain to their people why they should take one side or the other side. But in the movie its doing the opposite. It allows you to have a Universal Experience. You don't watch it as politics but as a movie. You don't have different reactions all over. It's so universal a language. It's not a political language serving a political agenda. The language of cinema is a world language. With the Hollywood movie, it brings about the same reaction wherever it goes.

You can have the most advanced and efflorescent of cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient history. This is Germany 1933... Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.

I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups.

In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.

For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty - statecraft). Because if we don't get politics right, everything else risks extinction.

The most encouraging trend of our time is the widespread loss of faith in government. No longer do people look to the government as the great problem solver, economic planner, social unifier, or cultural czar. The government is more likely to be seen for what it is, a haven for grafters, liars, and would-be tyrants. Americans, like the Russians, no longer believe anything until it is officially denied.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

It is correct that securing the border is a government function, but when the government fails, it has a specific and significant impact on individual landowners.

The Modi government believes that the industrialist, the capitalist, has to pay for the assets of the government which belong to the people of India.

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

A limited government is much more likely to be a competent government.

Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.

I think my whole life had centered on Democratic politics. I was very much in that bubble. I worked in the Clinton administration so I had all these friends from there, and then in Democratic politics in New York, so that's what we sort of bonded over - that was our religion, to a certain extent.

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

Government shutdowns do not actually become what the term implies. Two-thirds of the government cannot shut down. We're only talking about the third of government that's discretionary spending, and even at that, nobody loses their jobs, and nobody loses their Thanksgiving turkey. The whole thing has resulted from the Republican Party thinking they bought the farm back in 1995.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.