Top 1200 Government Shutdown Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Madison understood that if you want to protect rights from government abuse, you would be wise not to give government the power in the first place that can be used to abuse rights. That is a lesson we have forgotten. As we have asked government to do more and more for us, we have forgotten that a government big enough to give us everything we want will be powerful enough to take everything we have.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

We have a government-to-government relationship with tribes, and they should have that opportunity to weigh in on important decisions that affect them.

When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird!

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

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

Much worse than the unavoidable inefficiencies of large government is the failure to fund the government we need.

The government is not doing anything to help the country to heal. The government is just making cosmetic changes.

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

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

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 best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.

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

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.

The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.

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

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

The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.

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.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

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

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

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for limited government, but I think the government should decide what women do with their bodies.

The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.

American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.

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

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

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

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

One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.

The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.

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

As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer.

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

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.

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

One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over.

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

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

I want to work closely with the government but it doesn't mean I become so weak and just toe the government line.

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

Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how -- the nature of the government in which people live.