Top 1200 Government Involvement Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

I probably got from my mom a passion for public policy and and civic involvement.

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.

I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.

Let's not be intimidated by secular people who disparage Christian involvement in politics.

I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.

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.

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.

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.

The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.

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.

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.

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.

The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.

Devotion is when your involvement with life is so absolute that you yourself do not matter anymore.

I never seen no shootin'. I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

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.

The extent of my political involvement is that I'm a registered voter - Republican.

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.

I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

I resisted emotional involvement for a while because I didn't believe it could work.

Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

I would wish for more British involvement in Europe, not less.

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

Devotion means your involvement with life is no more conditional.

My involvement in politics was always to be the prankster and show the silliness of the situation.

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.

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.

Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement.

To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Be involved; be informed. Make meaningful contributions to society through service and involvement.

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.

My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity.

An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.

The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really.

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.'

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.

My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

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

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.

As far as my involvement in the Bajaj family affairs is concerned, it is a friendly gesture.

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.

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.

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity

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.

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.

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

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.