Top 1200 Government Corruption Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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.

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

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

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

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

...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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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