Top 1000 Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

There is so much uncertainty out there, and the government in Washington doesn't seem to get it. What's needed is a new business environment.

It has always been the role of government to help solve problems, including and especially health crises. Obesity is a health epidemic across our country, and we have a responsibility as a government and a society to do all we can to promote good nutrition and healthy eating so we can reverse this alarming trend.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

Taking care of a border security is one of the issues that government has to manage. It is not to be politicised to win votes and gain sympathy.

Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.

I had been raised in the mountains of Idaho by a father who distrusted many of the institutions that people take for granted - public education, doctors and hospitals, and the government.

I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Success is created in studio apartments and garages, at kitchen tables, and in classrooms across the nation, not in government conference rooms in Washington.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

In socialism, everything is supposed to be equal. And yet, it's always fascinating how the elite government bureaucrats (in socialist places like Venezuela, Cuba and Argentina) are the ones that wind up with all the money.

This Metaverse is going to be far more pervasive and powerful than anything else. If one central company gains control of this, they will become more powerful than any government and be a god on Earth.

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.

Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.

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

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

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

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

Good government is good politics.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.

Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

I do believe in our system there's a role for holding the government accountable, and it's very important to have voices who represent the people and ensure the government, which has enormous power, respects the will of the people. That's what I hope to do.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.