Top 1200 Government Policy Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

We're not free because other people are nice, maybe other people aren't nice that day. We're free because we expect the institutions of government to work impersonally. That we expect people in government to understand they don't work for the president or the prime minister, they work for the government. And the government is always there.

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

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

The most encouraging trend of our time is the widespread loss of faith in government. No longer do people look to the government as the great problem solver, economic planner, social unifier, or cultural czar. The government is more likely to be seen for what it is, a haven for grafters, liars, and would-be tyrants. Americans, like the Russians, no longer believe anything until it is officially denied.

The Modi government believes that the industrialist, the capitalist, has to pay for the assets of the government which belong to the people of India.

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

I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that. But there is a competing interest, and that is the ability of prosecutors to get information that may be absolutely essential to assist them in the investigation of illegal wrongdoing. And so you've got these two competing interests. I believe that the current policy at the Department of Justice reflects a careful balancing of those interests.

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

The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust.

I think Jason Chaffetz was correct to call for an investigation into the Government Ethics Department in the government for the positions that they've taken in this campaign.

I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever.

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

The world is now unipolar and contains o­nly o­ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. In this context, given our common values and the political, economic and security interests that we share with the United States, there is now no more important foreign policy interest for Canada than maintaining the ability to exercise effective influence in Washington so as to advance unique Canadian policy objectives.

To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.

Freedom rests on a rational distrust of government; government will always use its power to benefit the incumbent administration.

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

When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have a problem you blame the federal government. We don't blame the Queen any more, so once in a while we might blame the Americans.

For me, the passions and issues I care so much about are ones that lend themselves to work whether you're in government or outside of government.

Israel is a start-up nation, and I think it can be done in other places. I will do it outside the government. I don't need the government.

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

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.

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

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.

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

...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.

Freedom for the government is enslavement for the people. When the government is free the people are enslaved. When the government is contained then the people are free.

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

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.

I want the government to resign and an emergency government to be proclaimed, preferably made up of women. They can't do worse than men.

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.

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

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.

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

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.

Civil servants and government functionaries do not write memoirs because they hope to get more government jobs or assignments.

Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A frugal government requires a self-reliant people. A free country requires people who value liberty more than money.

I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival; hungers to once again see honor placed above political expediency; to see government once again the protector of our liberties, not the distributor of gifts and privilege. Government should uphold and not undermine those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded-religion, education and, above all, family. Government cannot be clergyman, teacher and patriot. It government is our servant, beholden to us.

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

When I look at the Republicans, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors to concoct a series of positions deliberately designed to weaken America, they would be hard pressed to beat the current GOP dogma - hobble education, starve the government by slashing taxes to the rich, kneecap attempts to jumpstart the economy by fixating on debt, invite corporations to dominate political discourse, balkanize the population by demonizing minorities and immigrants and let favored religions dictate social policy.

If you look at the Malaysian media, you will find that, although some are supportive of the government, many are not, and they are very critical of the government.

I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

Apple doesn't have to write code, which equals speech, when it doesn't agree with what the government wants to do. And it's not that the government can't make you do anything you don't want to do.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

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

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

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

I think the government, if you measure it in terms of the dollars out the door, about 83 percent of the government stays open in a government shutdown. Social Security checks go out; military still exists. The FBI still chases bad guys. I think the consequences have been blown out of proportion.

If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague.... It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents.

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 truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.

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

In America, we have a government that some people believe is too big and overbearing, yet, when it comes to guns, we might as well have no government at all.

Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.

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.

It is very hard now to shock people into thinking about government regulation and the extent of government involvement in life.