Top 1200 Government Regulation Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.

Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.

Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government makes you think that it all comes from them.

The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government, but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.

My first goal as governor is to restore public trust in state government by changing the culture of state government.

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

The government can become so elitist and concentrate on elitist interests. To help the government, you must constantly hold its attention.

While we have a Constitution that is very strong in the sense that we are not gonna have a religion that's sanctioned by the government, it doesn't mean that we need to have a separation between government and religion.

As a businessperson, I dont have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.

What are you so mad about? That we still have a government? We still have “traffic lights.” We’re sorry. The government’s not perfect, but some people wish it was better, not gone.

Why are liberals who want the government to regulate their health care upset that the government wants to regulate their internet?

I had to sign the paper to shut down the government. It's terrible.... [But] what the shutdown showed many, many people is the importance of the role of government. And as frustrated [as people get with] Washington, there are so many things [the government does] that are so important to people's lives every day. The panda cam, paying small businesses their loans - these are all things that shut down.

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts.

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

The problem is that the global arms trade is entirely free of international regulation. In a world in which the flow of consumer goods is governed by a plethora of international conventions and regulations, deadly weapons have an uncanny knack of slipping through the net.

We're not like the American administration, we're not social media administration or government. We are a government that deals with reality. When we have evidence, we'll announce it.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us

For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth.

I actually don't believe in big government, and half the time I'm never quite sure I believe in government, generally.

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

When the government controls a limited supply, the government gets to decide who gets the vaccines and who doesn't. In some cases, who lives and who doesn't.

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.

Government doesn't have to be the enemy, but too much government has produced a new kind of inequality in America: opportunity inequality.

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe.

The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.

Government isn't there just to administer life support to failing markets. Without the government, many of those markets would not even exist.

The O.M.B. director puts together the budget. It handles every executive order. It is the clearing house for every single federal regulation. It has input into all the management of all of the federal agencies... It is involved with everything. And I thought, 'That's where I want to be.'

We have an extreme rightwing government in Britain, although it's called the Labour government. That's confused a lot of people, but it's confusing them less and less.

All issues - purchasing and selling of currency - are related to the regulation of the national currency market. However, it is still difficult to say what will be the reaction of the Central Bank and if it would lead to increasing the gold and foreign currency reserves.

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

It's fair to say that the policy and character of my government would be, or the government which I lead, would be very different to that of President Trump.

Facebook is a known behemoth corporate monopoly. It has exposed at least 87 million people's data, enabled foreign propaganda and perpetuated discrimination. We shouldn't be begging for Facebook's endorsement of laws, or for Mark Zuckerberg's promises of self-regulation.

Almost every labourer has his Sunday suit, very often really good clothes, sometimes glossy black, with the regulation 'chimney pot'. His unfortunate walk betrays him, dress how he will.

I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.

I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.

When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate.

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

If the government were obliged to come to the people for money instead of vice-versa, the people would keep government under control and operate their economy satisfactorily with prosperity and peace resulting. The peoples of the nations do not make war. For them peace is the natural and permanent order. Wars are planned and perpetrated by politicians and their diplomats; and the money power of government is the means by which the people are maneuvered into wars.

The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.

Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.

That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government.

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.