Top 1200 Limiting Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I arose and spoke substantially as follows: ... I love the government and the constitution of the United States, but I do not love the damned rascals who administer the government.

...[the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service,...and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at] delivering...service.

BJP is not going to the people only to form a government. We have come to the people to give stability and a development oriented government.

As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

We may not always recognize it, but government plays a bigger role in our lives than any other single person or institution. We spend nearly half of our lives working to pay for it. Children spend more time in government schools than they do with their parents. Birth, death, marriage, every area of our lives feels the influence of government.

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

We are no longer demonstrators. We are not actors, we are now people committed to the proposition that if the government won't stop the war, we will stop the government.

I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa.

The government should stop meddling in the business of the farmers, who would actually still be living ina desert if not for government meddling.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us

As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.

A federal government with enough money to buy iPads for local gym teachers is not a federal government that has been cut to the bone.

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

If God is in fact separated from the government, then we can never possibly have a godly government. There's no way for America to be good if she's not godly.

The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.

The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.

Reagan used to say that 'we're a country with a government.' Well, now we're a government with a country, and we're making everybody else that way, too.

The government can become so elitist and concentrate on elitist interests. To help the government, you must constantly hold its attention.

Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective way to drive change in the federal government.

I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.

Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.

Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.

The bad consequences of a government program usually don't show up immediately. And the delay may be long enough to hide the connection between the program and its results. So government never has to say it's sorry - never has to take responsibility for ht misery it causes. Instead it can blame everything on personal greed, profit-hungry corporations, and the 'private sector.' And the government's cure for the problems is to impose bigger programs, more regulation and higher taxes.

When you're in the CIA, you anticipate the possibility that you'll be betrayed by a foreign government or a source, but you never anticipate that it would be by your own government.

But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem.

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

A government that cannot survive truth and must resort to stamping out truth is not a government that any country wants.

When the government controls a limited supply, the government gets to decide who gets the vaccines and who doesn't. In some cases, who lives and who doesn't.

Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases. Government that's not particularly caring and is hands-off is not particularly inspiring.

In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'

The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

It's fair to say that the policy and character of my government would be, or the government which I lead, would be very different to that of President Trump.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

I'm not here to say that the government is always right, but when the government tells you to do something, I'm sure you would all agree that I think you all recognize that is something you need to do.

One of the things government should be around for is to deal with catastrophes. It should do that well. To me, that's a government function, and we shouldn't be playing political games with it.

Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity.

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

Government doesn't have to be the enemy, but too much government has produced a new kind of inequality in America: opportunity inequality.

Why are liberals who want the government to regulate their health care upset that the government wants to regulate their internet?

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they're different. It's very limiting.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

Regarding our links with the Russian government, Severstal is a private company with no government participation. We are answerable to our shareholders.

I was a minister in the Vajpayee government. Atalji wanted to do so many things. But, since he was heading a coalition government, he could not do all those things.

When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to liberty.

Vis a vis the Golan Heights, the present government of Israel, under my leadership, is the first government that is ready to speak about a withdrawal.

For us, the government of Venezuelan Nicolas Maduro is not a government that allows democratic plurality. It does not allow for there to be a real opposition, and that is not democratic.

I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.

They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

I don't trust the church or the government, and anything the church or the government tells me I assume to be a lie or a conspiracy, until proven true.

Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government makes you think that it all comes from them.

Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.

Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters.

The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.

Really, having a gun registry and having to rely on the government to keep it secret, the government isn't so great at keeping confidences.

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.