Top 1200 Representative Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

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.

The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.

Our nation is not a fully representative democracy if we do not have a one-person, one-vote method of directly electing our president. It disproportionately tilts favor to smaller states with smaller populations.

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

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.

In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government, but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.

I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

While we have a Constitution that is very strong in the sense that we are not gonna have a religion that's sanctioned by the government, it doesn't mean that we need to have a separation between government and religion.

Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate.

The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum for determining the "rule of the game" and as an umpire to interpret and enforce the rules decided on.

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.

Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.

The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities to choose between to disguise the fact that the policies are the same.

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

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.

I actually don't believe in big government, and half the time I'm never quite sure I believe in government, generally.

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

I had to sign the paper to shut down the government. It's terrible.... [But] what the shutdown showed many, many people is the importance of the role of government. And as frustrated [as people get with] Washington, there are so many things [the government does] that are so important to people's lives every day. The panda cam, paying small businesses their loans - these are all things that shut down.

We're not like the American administration, we're not social media administration or government. We are a government that deals with reality. When we have evidence, we'll announce it.

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

No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care. But at the same time, government can either support or undermine families as they cope with moral, social and economic stresses of caring for children.

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.

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

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

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

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed." If the public authorities can be outgunned or bribed, the vibrancy of the private sector can be pathological.

As a businessperson, I dont 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.

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

What are you so mad about? That we still have a government? We still have “traffic lights.” We’re sorry. The government’s not perfect, but some people wish it was better, not gone.

Government isn't there just to administer life support to failing markets. Without the government, many of those markets would not even exist.

And for government and a bunch of men in government, frankly, to get between a woman and her provider is downright dangerous, especially when most of them can't even spell endometriosis, much less tell you what it means.

We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.

The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level of shared disinterest known as the public good.

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.

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

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

You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.

That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government.

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

My first goal as governor is to restore public trust in state government by changing the culture of state government.

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

If the government were obliged to come to the people for money instead of vice-versa, the people would keep government under control and operate their economy satisfactorily with prosperity and peace resulting. The peoples of the nations do not make war. For them peace is the natural and permanent order. Wars are planned and perpetrated by politicians and their diplomats; and the money power of government is the means by which the people are maneuvered into wars.

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

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

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

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

We have an extreme rightwing government in Britain, although it's called the Labour government. That's confused a lot of people, but it's confusing them less and less.

Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth