Famous Quotes
- It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.
- Newt Gingrich on Government
- It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
- Andrew Jackson on Government
- It is unclear exactly how many law enforcement agencies are currently using this capability, but it is reasonable to say that while resource limitations used to discourage the government from tracking you without a good reason, these constraints have largely disappeared.
- Ron Wyden on Government
- It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.
- James Bovard on Government
- It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.
- Sandra Day O'Connor on Government
- It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
- George Washington on Government
- It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
- Hubert H. Humphrey on Government
- It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
- Andrew Jackson on Government
- It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
- John Kenneth Galbraith on Government
- It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
- Will Rogers on Government
- It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
- Alan Shepard on Government
- It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.
- Lucy Powell on Government
- It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.
- John Sununu on Government
- It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.
- Edward Norton on Government
- It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
- Will Rogers on Government
- It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.
- William Weld on Government
- It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.
- Tom Stoppard on Government
- It's not tyranny we desire it's a just, limited, federal government.
- Alexander Hamilton on Government
- It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.
- Mitt Romney on Government
- It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
- Carly Fiorina on Government
- It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.
- Stephen Harper on Government
- It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
- Barack Obama on Government
- It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.
- Jimmy Carter on Government
- Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
- Dan Rather on Government
- Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.
- Mitt Romney on Government
- Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
- Maynard James Keenan on Government
- Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.
- Ron Paul on Government
- Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.
- Shia LaBeouf on Government
- Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
- James Madison on Government
- Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
- Otto Von Bismarck on Government
- Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.
- Benjamin Franklin on Government
- Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.
- Marco Rubio on Government
- Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
- Harry Browne on Government
- Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
- William Penn on Government
- Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on Government
- Let's be honest about this the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.
- Alveda King on Government
- Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.
- Nancy Pelosi on Government
- Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.
- Marco Rubio on Government
- Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.
- Rush Limbaugh on Government
- Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
- Woodrow Wilson on Government
- Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
- Thomas Sowell on Government
- Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him one doubted Him one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?
- Richard J. Daley on Government
- Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.
- Stephen Harper on Government
- Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.
- Jesse Ventura on Government
- Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
- Mark Twain on Government
- Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
- Lord Acton on Government
- Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
- Larry Flynt on Government
- Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.
- John Podhoretz on Government
- Man is not free unless government is limited.
- Ronald Reagan on Government
- Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
- Denis Diderot on Government
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