Top 1200 Government Policy Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.

Government! Government! What do I get for all I give, I'd like to know! Potholes and bombs!

I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government.

We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.

Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in the aggregate they are probably much more expensive than would be the implementation of the appropriate public policy. The second is that they are extremely poor replacements for the missing outcomes of good public policy. Nevertheless, it is plain that the members of a society can become so alienated from one another, so mistrustful of any form of collective action, that they prefer to go it alone.

ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.

Republican government - self-government by the people - is at the heart of what it means to be free.

We don't want our government building files on what people think about their government.

Trust me, I've been to countries where there's no government. And our government's pretty damned good.

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

At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.

I have... submitted the resignation of the government, and I have declared that I will not be a candidate to head the (next) government.

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

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

If someone builds a fortune, it belongs to him, not the government. An entitled government undermines liberty.

When we talk about 'reproductive rights' this is what we mean. It's the difference between people as objects, and people as agents: between regarding people as pawns on the policy chessboard and recognizing them as the players, the decision-makers, the drivers of policy; autonomous individuals intimately concerned with the direction of their own lives. Under these conditions women, especially, enjoy better health and live fuller lives.

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

If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

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.

Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.

It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.

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.

People want government to solve problems, but government is often the cause of the problem.

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.

The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government.

I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.

'Let's Move!' is not about having government tell people what to do, because government doesn't have all the answers.

The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world.

A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border is not secure despite twelve carrier battle groups. We must accept that it is a cornerstone of Mexican foreign policy to export illegally each year a million of its own to the United States to avoid needed reform at home and to influence American domestic policy.

Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In the realms of culture studies, policy, and policy formation, there is no book quite like Think Tanks in America. Plus which, no one has understood, interpreted, then used Pierre Bourdieu's ideas better-so well that Bourdieu himself would have been pleased.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation

We need a lifetime ban on government officials lobbying for a foreign government.

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.

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first inaugural address, the Senate stated: "We feel, sir, the force and acknowledge the justness of the observation that the foundation of our national policy should be lain in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles it is in vain to look for public virtue."

Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government.

I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.

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.

Clipper took a relatively simple problem, encryption between two phones, and turned it into a much more complex problem, encryption between two phones but that can be decrypted by the government under certain conditions and, by making the problem that complicated, that made it very easy for subtle flaws to slip by unnoticed. I think it demonstrated that this problem is not just a tough public policy problem, but it's also a tough technical problem.

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.

I've led a life working at every level of government, from Congress to local government.

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

Historically, it's very unusual after a change of government for the new government not to be returned.

As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.

Paul Ryan says he's for smaller government, and he's funded every big government idea that there is.

I would bring the government back to what it was intended to be - a plain economical government.

One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.

I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government.

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

Government is basically a parasite, and if the host doesn't grow, then government suffers.

If the government decides to become a tyrannical government, our guns are to protect us against that.