Top 1200 Parliamentary Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as Germans the Polish Jews as well, although this dirtiest of all races, neither by its jargon nor by its descent, but at most only through its lust for profit, could have any relation of kinship with Frankfurt.