Top 1200 World Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen, Then it were better for the world That the world have never been.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The government is responsible for the violence, as long as they don't stop it. And if we have to get violent to protect ourselves, then it's the government that should be charged with the crime, because we're only upholding a law that they've been unable to uphold.

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

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.

They pushed us into the fight to defund Obamacare and shut down the government. And the day before the government reopened, one of these groups said, 'Well, we never thought it would work.' Are you kidding me?!

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

Vis a vis the Golan Heights, the present government of Israel, under my leadership, is the first government that is ready to speak about a withdrawal.

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

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

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.

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.

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 government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Free enterprise is a natural result of the American form of government, which says in so many words that the more men do for themselves, the less government does for them, the better off we will all be.

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.

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.

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

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

You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

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.

Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.

A federal government with enough money to buy iPads for local gym teachers is not a federal government that has been cut to the bone.

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

The government should stop meddling in the business of the farmers, who would actually still be living ina desert if not for government meddling.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Reagan used to say that 'we're a country with a government.' Well, now we're a government with a country, and we're making everybody else that way, too.

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

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.

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

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