Top 1200 Parliamentary Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how -- the nature of the government in which people live.

The government is not doing anything to help the country to heal. The government is just making cosmetic changes.

All this anti-Christian rhetoric that you see coming from the government, all this anti-Christian push, is not really an attack on Christianity. It's an effort to make you realize that God is your government. Your government is God.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

There are cycles in American politics. US cycles are even more pronounced because we Americans have a totally entrepreneurial presidential system. We don't have parliamentary opposition parties with a shadow prime minister and shadow cabinets. Every four years, the opposition reinvents itself.

The World Trade Organization, The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions virtually write economic policy and parliamentary legislation. With a deadly combination of arrogance and ruthlessness, they take their sledgehammers to fragile, interdependent, historically complex societies and devastate them, all under the fluttering banner of 'reform'.

American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

We want a national emissions trading scheme, the Government does not and has rejected one for years. We want to boost the mandatory renewable energies target, the Government has failed to do that. We want a national demand side management strategy for the country to reduce electricity consumption and the Government, up until now, has done very little on that score.

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.

The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.

The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

A limited government is much more likely to be a competent government.

Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.

The best government is not the one that you can serve in the longest, but the government that's closest to the people.

As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.

Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.

Trust me, I've been to countries where there's no government. And our government's pretty damned good.

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.

Madison understood that if you want to protect rights from government abuse, you would be wise not to give government the power in the first place that can be used to abuse rights. That is a lesson we have forgotten. As we have asked government to do more and more for us, we have forgotten that a government big enough to give us everything we want will be powerful enough to take everything we have.

Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

We have a government-to-government relationship with tribes, and they should have that opportunity to weigh in on important decisions that affect them.

I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for limited government, but I think the government should decide what women do with their bodies.

I want to work closely with the government but it doesn't mean I become so weak and just toe the government line.

In any war, mistakes happen on the ground; this is not the policy of the government. We are a government that functions according to laws.

One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.

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

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

Much worse than the unavoidable inefficiencies of large government is the failure to fund the government we need.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.

We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't 'We The People' anymore.

If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

Paul Ryan says he's for smaller government, and he's funded every big government idea that there is.

Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.

When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird!

One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

Now we are in the second term of the government of a united nation and the government has done very well. One thing they have done, one thing people could not be blind to, was the achievement this government has made in giving human beings dignity, which they did not enjoy before. They now have dignity.

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer.

I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.

It's the government's job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it's the government's duty to inspire confidence.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

I'm against government giving money to artists, but I'm not against artists taking money. Just like I don't have a moral problem with people taking healthcare from the government, but I don't think government should give it.

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.