Top 1200 Government Intervention Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

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

When I was at the State Department, I was targeted by the Russian propaganda machine because I was one of the most visible faces of the United States opposition to Russia's illegal intervention in Crimea. They made up quotes I never said.

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

The Andes region is not stable. So we can expect to see more US intervention. It could be under any kind of pretext. We can no longer use the Russians as an excuse, as we did in Central America in the 1980's, so drugs will have to do.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

In the Arab Spring, that obviously came to a head in Syria. I found myself arguing for intervention, mainly just because I wanted things to get better, and I had this germ of liberal humanitarian interventionism.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.