Famous Quotes
- 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.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Government
- Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?
- Michael Bloomberg on Government
- When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
- Bono on Government
- When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
- Robert A. Heinlein on Government
- When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
- James Dyson on Government
- When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
- Lawrence Lessig on Government
- When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
- Winston Churchill on Government
- When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
- Adam Weishaupt on Government
- When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
- Ron Paul on Government
- When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
- John W. Gardner on Government
- When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.
- Howard Zinn on Government
- When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
- Ron Paul on Government
- When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.
- Rick Perry on Government
- When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
- Marquis De Lafayette on Government
- When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
- Iain Duncan Smith on Government
- When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger on Government
- When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson on Government
- When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.
- David Mamet on Government
- When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
- Herbert Hoover on Government
- When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.
- Colin Powell on Government
- When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
- Harry S. Truman on Government
- Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
- Thomas Jefferson on Government
- Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
- Elizabeth I on Government
- Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
- William Lyon Mackenzie King on Government
- Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
- Xenophon on Government
- Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.
- Stephen Harper on Government
- Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Government
- While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
- John Adams on Government
- While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.
- Tim Holden on Government
- While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
- Madeleine Albright on Government
- Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.
- Rick Perry on Government
- Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
- Alexander Hamilton on Government
- Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
- Mary Wollstonecraft on Government
- World War II was the last government program that really worked.
- George Will on Government
- You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.
- Mitt Romney on Government
- You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
- Karel Capek on Government
- You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.
- Rob McKenna on Government
- You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.
- Dick Cheney on Government
- You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.
- Lawrence Summers on Government
- You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.
- Rand Paul on Government
- You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous.
- Vince Cable on Government
- You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.
- Rush Limbaugh on Government
- You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.
- Chris Rock on Government
- You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.
- Sandra Day O'Connor on Government
- You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.
- Marco Rubio on Government
- You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.
- Marco Rubio on Government
- You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
- Rush Limbaugh on Government
- You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.
- Robert Anton Wilson on Government
- You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
- Rand Paul on Government
- You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.
- Jim DeMint on Government
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