Top 1200 Government Shutdown Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

The ultimate check against government tyranny is an informed electorate who will elect people who believe in limited government. I don't want to embrace the idea we want people to take to the streets with guns. I want people to go to the voting booth and check an out of control government by electing conservatives.

We need a broad government which will make decisions, but not a national unity government, because we are divided from within.

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

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.

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.

The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

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

It's important to be able to sit together and form a government of the majority that serves everyone, and not a government of minorities that takes care of itself.

When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.

Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it "good." He wished that government would wander off and get lost! (96)

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.

There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government.

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

If the government shuts down, nothing happens, and we all move on, because it just doesn't matter. Stasis in the government is actually good for all of us.

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

The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the 19th century in "On Liberty." The proper role of government is to prevent other people from harming an individual. Government, he said, never has any right to interfere with an individual for that individual's own good.

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.

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

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents.

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.

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

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.

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.

Otherwise we don't run the government the government runs us

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.

It would be a matter of concern for government if intrusive data capture has been deployed against Indian citizens or government infrastructure.

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

The highest percentage of respondents say that biggest problem in the country is the government. The biggest problem facing our country today is that our government is terrible. Dissatisfaction with the government, problem numero uno by a mile.

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

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.

Americans feel frustrated, distanced, and disenfranchised from our elected government. We deserve more: a government in which we truly all have a voice.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

We shouldn't just consider the desire of government to do what it wants to do. We should always consider the resistance of people. The culture of Iranian people doesn't let the government drag people into deep trouble or backlash. Maybe government wants it, but the culture doesn't let it go on.

While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary.

You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the number of laws? Number of employees? You could make arguments for either one. I tend to think the axis of the size of government is the wrong concern. But I do think that situating power more locally is a legitimate approach.

Almost half of the Turkish population believes it is not legitimate to criticize the government. Interestingly, this correlates with the number of supporters of Erdogan's government.

I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.

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

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.

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.

No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.

If you want government to take everything, if you want government to take more and more over with the banks, more of the industries, all of a sudden you're going to have a government auto czar, right there, right down the line, that's socialism.

Either we start cutting the government and shrinking the size of government, or else we're going to face the political wrath of the American people.

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.

If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the world has ever seen.

I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get or spend is somehow sacred. There is more fraud and waste and misuse. If the federal government were held accountable to the law as corporations are held accountable, half the federal government would be in prison.

The only legitimate government in the world, is the Iranian government.

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.

We don't get a more responsive government unless we start to systematically run organizing campaigns to change the way government works.

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 Government regularizes illegal slums inhabited by outsiders, but the government workers or policemen do not get permanent house in Mumbai.

Right now there’s kind of a generational change. Young Americans do not trust this government. Without trusting government you can't do a lot of things.

A government, founded on impartial liberty, where all have a voice and a vote, irrespective of color or of sex--what is there to hinder such a government from standing firm.

You don't take it personally. You understand that if people are angry that somehow the government is failing, then they are going to look to the guy who represents government.