Top 1200 Government Jobs Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Egypt's problem is that you've got an economy that works for about 40 million people, only you have 90 million people. The answer to the Egyptian problem is not guns, but jobs. We've got to find a private-sector, nongovernmental, aggressive way of creating jobs. That's not America's role totally.

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

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

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

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

Apple does all of its research and development in America. It has all these brilliant people sitting in Silicon Valley. But until recently, Apple made nothing in America. Zero. And the jobs that were accessible to a good, well-trained worker that knew how to do welding or assembly, none of those jobs had stayed in America. We don't have the workforce.

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

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

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

Everybody who works in the computer industry is in an industry that didn't exist twenty-five years ago. We are talking on cell phones, and there were no such things. All the people who work for Nextel and so on, those are lost jobs that became found jobs. We are in a constant state of changing, and there are numerous opportunities in a time like this, but people are still going back to the fear.

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

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.

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.

...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.

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

If the Tea Party gets its way, there will be less government - which is great for the elites. They don't need the government.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I found out that detectives are really good dressers. I'm not even exaggerating. The woman I interviewed had these fantastic fuschia suede heels on that I coveted. And that they're invested in their jobs the same way you and I might be. We think of them as doing these jobs that we could never imagine doing, but their relationship to what they do is the same as our relationship to what we do.

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

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

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

I think I've made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard. I've created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures. I've had tremendous success. I think I've done a lot.

It is correct that securing the border is a government function, but when the government fails, it has a specific and significant impact on individual landowners.

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

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

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.

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

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

The reality is if something were to happen that cost China jobs - like, if they upwardly revalued the currency a lot - those jobs aren't going to come back to the U.S. They would go to Vietnam; they would go to Thailand. They would go to whatever country was the lowest cost.

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

The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.

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

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

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

The bill that was about jobs, jobs, jobs has turned into a bill that's about spending, spending, spending.

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

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.

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.

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

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

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

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