Top 1200 Government Shutdown Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.

When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to liberty.

One of the things government should be around for is to deal with catastrophes. It should do that well. To me, that's a government function, and we shouldn't be playing political games with it.

I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.

Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters.

Reagan used to say that 'we're a country with a government.' Well, now we're a government with a country, and we're making everybody else that way, too.

I don't trust the church or the government, and anything the church or the government tells me I assume to be a lie or a conspiracy, until proven true.

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.

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

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

They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.

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

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

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

The government should stop meddling in the business of the farmers, who would actually still be living ina desert if not for government meddling.

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.

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

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.

I arose and spoke substantially as follows: ... I love the government and the constitution of the United States, but I do not love the damned rascals who administer the government.

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

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

As a businessperson, I don't 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.

The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.

Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.

Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases. Government that's not particularly caring and is hands-off is not particularly inspiring.

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

I was a minister in the Vajpayee government. Atalji wanted to do so many things. But, since he was heading a coalition government, he could not do all those things.

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.

Vis a vis the Golan Heights, the present government of Israel, under my leadership, is the first government that is ready to speak about a withdrawal.

I'm not here to say that the government is always right, but when the government tells you to do something, I'm sure you would all agree that I think you all recognize that is something you need to do.

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.

I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa.

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.

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.

While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'

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

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

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.

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

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

Regarding our links with the Russian government, Severstal is a private company with no government participation. We are answerable to our shareholders.

A government that cannot survive truth and must resort to stamping out truth is not a government that any country wants.

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

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.

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

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

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

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

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.

If God is in fact separated from the government, then we can never possibly have a godly government. There's no way for America to be good if she's not godly.

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

BJP is not going to the people only to form a government. We have come to the people to give stability and a development oriented government.

Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity.

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

A federal government with enough money to buy iPads for local gym teachers is not a federal government that has been cut to the bone.

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