Top 1200 Government Corruption Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been the poor, but big government. The income tax has given us a government bureaucracy that outnumbers the manufacturing work force. It has created welfare dependencies that have entrapped millions of Americans in an underclass that is forced to live a sordid existence of trading votes for government handouts.

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!

For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it is a much rarer event.

The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government -- people who understand the inherent dangers of power and feel a distaste for using it, but who may do so for a few years as a civic duty. The worst kind of people to have in government are those who see it as a golden opportunity to impose their own superior wisdom and virtue on others.

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government.

People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

The Government has already U-turned today and I think the pressure is clearly growing for proper accountability over what this Government's negotiating position is on Brexit.

I think Donald Trump understands there's a Constitution. And that those separate but equal branches of government give us a limited government. And he believes that.

We're concerned with a powerful government who is telling General Motors now, maybe, what they can charge for their automobiles. Indeed, if the government owns 61 percent, they can do that.

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

You don't take it personally. You understand that if people are angry that somehow the government is failing, then they are going to look to the guy who represents government.

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.

Government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare, and later with Medicaid, and government already distorts the marketplace.

It would be a matter of concern for government if intrusive data capture has been deployed against Indian citizens or government infrastructure.

Many people say that in a liberalised world there is little for the government to do, but the fact is that there is much for the government to do in fewer areas. One such area is to provide infrastructure.

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.

The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.

So what's the difference between republican and democratic forms of government? John Adams captured the essence of the difference when he said, 'You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe.' Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.

A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the world has ever seen.

I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.

When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.

A lot of films in Canada are subsidized by the government, and compared to a studio, the government really stays out of your face creatively.

Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.

Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It's all the participants in the network enforcing.

The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.

Government shouldn't try to dictate what art looks like or what it portrays. Last thing we want is government screwing it up, which is what they would do.

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by taking from another.

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

The government can't solve every problem, but an enlightened government can make sure that people can work hard for their dreams and achieve them.

It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the excesses of the federal government.

We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.

I don't think any government is going to go back on the reforms process. There is no government that won't attempt to get people to come and manufacture in India.

One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.

The world needs to slash emissions by tens of billions of tons annually, which categorically requires government investment and government regulations.

In the U.S., we fundamentally need to do new things, which I think is harder for the government to do. And moreover, it is not something our government actually is inclined to particularly do.

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.

You can see it in the worship of [Ronald] Reagan, which portrays him as somebody who saved us from government. Actually he was an apostle of big government.

The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value.

While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary.

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

We've got the government shutdown, but the beginning of Obamacare. You know what that means? You can now complain to your doctor about the government making you sick.

Thomas Jefferson despised newspapers, with considerable justification. They printed libels and slanders about him that persist to the present day. Yet he famously said that if he had to choose between government without newspapers and newspapers without government, he would cheerfully choose to live in a land with newspapers (even not very good ones) and no government.

It's important to be able to sit together and form a government of the majority that serves everyone, and not a government of minorities that takes care of itself.

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

Americans feel frustrated, distanced, and disenfranchised from our elected government. We deserve more: a government in which we truly all have a voice.

Under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, it is possible for other parties to change the direction of a government without bringing a government down.

Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.

My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.

The majority of Americans get their news and information about what is going on with their government from entities that are licensed by and subject to punishment at the hands of that very government.