Top 1200 Parliamentary Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

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

I won't say I've never felt in Alex Salmond's shadow, but latterly, when Alex was leader, I didn't. It's more about my awareness of the fact I became First Minister during a parliamentary term. That means you're First Minister, but you haven't been elected in your own right as First Minister.

The only legitimate government in the world, is the Iranian government.

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

The highest percentage of respondents say that biggest problem in the country is the government. The biggest problem facing our country today is that our government is terrible. Dissatisfaction with the government, problem numero uno by a mile.

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.

The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

A lot of films in Canada are subsidized by the government, and compared to a studio, the government really stays out of your face creatively.

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.

Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by taking from another.

Under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, it is possible for other parties to change the direction of a government without bringing a government down.

Either we start cutting the government and shrinking the size of government, or else we're going to face the political wrath of the American people.

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

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

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.

If you want government to take everything, if you want government to take more and more over with the banks, more of the industries, all of a sudden you're going to have a government auto czar, right there, right down the line, that's socialism.

While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary.

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

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

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

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.

Government is the only industry in which we don't have a choice. If you live somewhere, you belong to that government. So we get bad service for high prices. This doesn't have to be.

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

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

We don't get a more responsive government unless we start to systematically run organizing campaigns to change the way government works.

All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it "good." He wished that government would wander off and get lost! (96)

It would be a matter of concern for government if intrusive data capture has been deployed against Indian citizens or government infrastructure.

There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government.

We shouldn't just consider the desire of government to do what it wants to do. We should always consider the resistance of people. The culture of Iranian people doesn't let the government drag people into deep trouble or backlash. Maybe government wants it, but the culture doesn't let it go on.

For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it is a much rarer event.

The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.

If the government shuts down, nothing happens, and we all move on, because it just doesn't matter. Stasis in the government is actually good for all of us.

The government can't solve every problem, but an enlightened government can make sure that people can work hard for their dreams and achieve them.

My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.

Right now there’s kind of a generational change. Young Americans do not trust this government. Without trusting government you can't do a lot of things.

The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents.

It's important to be able to sit together and form a government of the majority that serves everyone, and not a government of minorities that takes care of itself.

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.

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.

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.

You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the number of laws? Number of employees? You could make arguments for either one. I tend to think the axis of the size of government is the wrong concern. But I do think that situating power more locally is a legitimate approach.

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

The Government has already U-turned today and I think the pressure is clearly growing for proper accountability over what this Government's negotiating position is on Brexit.

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

I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!

The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the 19th century in "On Liberty." The proper role of government is to prevent other people from harming an individual. Government, he said, never has any right to interfere with an individual for that individual's own good.

I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get or spend is somehow sacred. There is more fraud and waste and misuse. If the federal government were held accountable to the law as corporations are held accountable, half the federal government would be in prison.

Almost half of the Turkish population believes it is not legitimate to criticize the government. Interestingly, this correlates with the number of supporters of Erdogan's government.

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.

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.

If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the world has ever seen.

The ultimate check against government tyranny is an informed electorate who will elect people who believe in limited government. I don't want to embrace the idea we want people to take to the streets with guns. I want people to go to the voting booth and check an out of control government by electing conservatives.

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.