Top 1200 Government Workers Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

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

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.

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

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space

A limited government is much more likely to be a competent government.

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

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

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

It's the government's job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it's the government's duty to inspire confidence.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

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.

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

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

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

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

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

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

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

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

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

We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't 'We The People' anymore.

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

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

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.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt.

People who don't believe in government are likely to defy our government.

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

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.

I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups.

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

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

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

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.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

I'm not in favor of no government. You do need a government. But by doing so many things that the government has no business doing, it cannot do those things which it alone can do well. There's no other institution in my opinion that can provide us with protection of our life and liberty. However, the government performs that basic function poorly today, precisely because it is devoting too much of its efforts and spending too much of our income on things which are harmful. So I have no doubt that that's the major single problem we face.

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

Do you people not care about this bogus government shutdown garbage? Back in 2013 Rob Portman, the senator from Ohio, Republican, suggested the End Government Shutdowns Act. So the End Government Shutdowns Act introduced by Senator Portman, the bill, you know what this would have done? Well, the Democrats shot it down. The Democrats don't want to get rid of the weapon they have by threatening a government shutdown and knowing the Republicans are gonna get blamed for it.

The best government is not the one that you can serve in the longest, but the government that's closest to the people.

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.

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

Without computers, the government would be unable to function at the level of effectiveness and efficiency that we have come to expect. . . . Today's government uses computers which are capable of cranking out millions of documents per day without any regard whatsoever for their content, thereby freeing government employees for more important responsibilities, such as not answering their phones.

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.

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

Government shutdowns do not actually become what the term implies. Two-thirds of the government cannot shut down. We're only talking about the third of government that's discretionary spending, and even at that, nobody loses their jobs, and nobody loses their Thanksgiving turkey. The whole thing has resulted from the Republican Party thinking they bought the farm back in 1995.

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

Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.