Top 1200 Government Intervention Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Government of limited power need not be anemic government. Assurance that rights are secure tends to diminish fear and jealousy of strong government, and by making us feel safe to live under it makes for its better support.

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

Government should be of the people, by the people, for the people. What part of that do politicians and government bureaucrats not understand? Government has no right to keep secrets from the people. The people are paying for it. It's THEIR government. They have a right to know everything going on.

There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

It drove home, personally, the value of early detection and education and intervention.

I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without any discussion of the rich variety of alternatives ... Unlike civil laws, economic laws are imposed on people with all the authority of immutable laws of nature. But the economy is created by people, supported by government intervention, regulation, statute and subsidy, and implemented in such a way that it gives substantial wealth and power to a privileged few, while the majority face a life of relentless work, stress and periodic financial insecurity.

The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to the racial-spoils system.

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses; a government which keeps its commitments and a government which is straight and candid with the Australian people and that's what we intend to do.

Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not.

Do you work for the government, any government?” "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.

It's the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, 'This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.'

What is so bad about big government? My indictment of big government is that it is bad because it attacks liberty, prosperity, progress, harmony, and morality. Thanks to big government, we have significantly less of all of those good things than we would if we had been able to keep government right-sized. Big government is cancerous. Like a cancer, it hurts the body and tends to spread, doing more and more harm as it grows. It is time for some radical surgery.

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

He probably couldn’t turn off his sexiness without medical intervention.’ (Abbie)

If deep change depended solely on outside intervention it would never happen.

Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.

I think that people who believe in limited government would benefit greatly by studying the logic in government itself and the role of power as a corruptive mechanism in leading finally to unlimited government.

If ever there was a time this country needed the intervention of God, it is now.

Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the government demands. In the meantime, their initiative and self-respect are destroyed.

If the U.S. Government was a company, the deficit would be $5 trillion because they would have to account by general accepted accounting principles. But actually they encourage government spending, reckless government spending, because the government can issue Treasury bills at extremely low interest rates.

Talk about divine intervention. I can't even tell you how blessed I feel.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

The whole basis for the US intervention in Colombia is outrageously racist and arrogant.

The only way we are going to ameliorate pressing social needs is through public intervention.

Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.

Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

What are the Democrats, the party of Jim Matheson, telling them? The message of the Democrats is that the Amercian dream is over. 'The government is all you have. Give up your dreams, and the government will save you, the government will heal you, the government will be your hope and change.' We know here in Utah, none of that is true.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden.

Aside from an intervention, which I don't think is on anybody's mind, Iraq is going to have defend for itself.

I'm not the government. Nor would I EVER want to be the government - I don't know how you feel about government, but I'm not really happy about them.

I am leading this government but this is a three-party government and even the independents are with us. More importantly, the public is with us. So it is everyone's government.

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

Our form of government depends on a mutual bond of trust between the people and their government. But people have become cynical about their government.

In a cult intervention information is presented about the group that the member is most often not aware of.

The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.

Thanksgiving is the day you don't know if you're invited for dinner or an intervention either way is going to be an ambush.

With MOOCs, “the real question becomes, where is human intervention important?

I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.

We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winners and losers. Where do you go if you want special favors? Government. Where do you go if you want a tax break? Government. Where do you go if you want a handout? Government. This must stop.

Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention.

The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free from government snooping and interference, and they put restraints on government overreaching in the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. . . . These protections require, at a minimum, a neutral arbiter - a magistrate - standing between the government's endless desire for information and the citizens' desires for privacy.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

The government should urgently speed its adoption of AI to reduce the amount of time individuals spend unnecessarily interacting with the government and increase the speed of government response to citizens.

Justice is the object of government, and those who support the government, must be agreed as to the justice to be executed by it, or they cannot rightfully unite in maintaining the government itself.

What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.

I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.

Socialism is when government's taking care of you, you send all your money to the government, the government decides how to spend it instead of letting the people spend it and make all those decisions.

In the event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence and which the Polish Government accordingly considered it vital to resist with their national forces, His Majesty's Government would feel themselves bound at once to lend the Polish Government all support in their power. They have given the Polish Government an assurance to this effect. I may add that the French Government have authorized me to make it plain that they stand in the same position in this matter.

I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention.

Make sure the government treats others the same as you would want the government to treat you. ...Once you consent to the government ignoring the Constitution, you deny yourself the protection of the Constitution.

On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful.

I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.