Top 1200 Government Workers Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

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.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

We're not free because other people are nice, maybe other people aren't nice that day. We're free because we expect the institutions of government to work impersonally. That we expect people in government to understand they don't work for the president or the prime minister, they work for the government. And the government is always there.

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A frugal government requires a self-reliant people. A free country requires people who value liberty more than money.

It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

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

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

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

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Freedom rests on a rational distrust of government; government will always use its power to benefit the incumbent administration.

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.

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.

In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.

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.

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.

All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.

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.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

I think the government, if you measure it in terms of the dollars out the door, about 83 percent of the government stays open in a government shutdown. Social Security checks go out; military still exists. The FBI still chases bad guys. I think the consequences have been blown out of proportion.

The Modi government believes that the industrialist, the capitalist, has to pay for the assets of the government which belong to the people of India.

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

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

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

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.

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I believe that the role of government is for the government to protect the God-given rights we have and to ensure that we live as free as possible.

It is correct that securing the border is a government function, but when the government fails, it has a specific and significant impact on individual landowners.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

Freedom for the government is enslavement for the people. When the government is free the people are enslaved. When the government is contained then the people are free.

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.

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.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

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

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.

Many white-collar workers are lucky enough to have creative-class jobs that are satisfying, which is great as long as you're still able to carve out true, work-free leisure at some point. But there's been a kind of sneaky reframing of work as play as the Silicon Valley model has been imported into other fields. Now you see adult offices that look like nursery schools, and staff paintball parties, work cultures that encourage the "We're a family here!" fantasy while preventing workers from going home at a reasonable hour to be with their actual families.

The most encouraging trend of our time is the widespread loss of faith in government. No longer do people look to the government as the great problem solver, economic planner, social unifier, or cultural czar. The government is more likely to be seen for what it is, a haven for grafters, liars, and would-be tyrants. Americans, like the Russians, no longer believe anything until it is officially denied.

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.

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

'Hispanic' was the term adopted by the government - by the Nixon government in particular - and that made the community feel it was being branded.

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.

Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.

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