Top 1200 Purpose Of Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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.

However little president Obama knows or cares about economics, he knows a lot about politics - and especially political rhetoric. 'High-speed rail' is simply another set of loft words to justify continued expansion of government spending. So are words like 'investment in education' or 'investment' in any number of other things, which serves the same political purpose.

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

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.

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.

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

The first purpose of your life is to be loved by God! Yes, it is important to serve him, obey, and trust him, but your first purpose is to love him.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Having a higher purpose is more than just about profits. You actually end up making more profits in the long run because employees really are a lot more engaged and customers see the higher purpose in the company.

...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.

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.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

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

Clary: What are you doing here, anyway? Jace: 'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet? If you're asking whether it's all just a cosmic coincidence or there's a greater metaethical purpose to life, well, that's a puzzler for the ages. I mean, simple ontological reductionism is clearly a fallacious argument, but- Clary: I'm going to bed.

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.

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.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

One time I had an awkward moment on purpose, you know, just to see what it feels like. I slipped getting out of my car at a big event. I got out of the car and fell face first into the street. A lot of cameras were on me. I was pretty embarrassed. I did it on purpose, though.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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