Famous Quotes
- If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
- George Will on Government
- If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
- Frank Herbert on Government
- If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
- Gary Hart on Government
- If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.
- Stephen Harper on Government
- If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.
- George Osborne on Government
- If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.
- Jerry Lewis on Government
- If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.
- David Mamet on Government
- In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.
- Paul Ryan on Government
- In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.
- Peter Singer on Government
- In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
- Cal Thomas on Government
- In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.
- Fareed Zakaria on Government
- In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
- Carroll Quigley on Government
- In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.
- Jeff Goodell on Government
- In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
- James Madison on Government
- In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
- Voltaire on Government
- In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
- Walter Lippmann on Government
- In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.
- Tony Blair on Government
- In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.
- Rick Perry on Government
- In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
- Noah Webster on Government
- In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
- Alexis De Tocqueville on Government
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
- Ambrose Bierce on Government
- In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.
- Lucy Powell on Government
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
- Saint Augustine on Government
- In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.
- Jonathan Krohn on Government
- In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on Government
- In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.
- Russell Means on Government
- In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.
- Mary J. Blige on Government
- In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.
- Noam Chomsky on Government
- In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.
- Thomas Carlyle on Government
- In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published.
- Alan Dershowitz on Government
- In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.
- Rick Perry on Government
- Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.
- Martin Feldstein on Government
- Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.
- Sheikh Hasina on Government
- Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
- Charles Horton Cooley on Government
- Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?
- Chris Christie on Government
- It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill on Government
- It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
- Thomas Sowell on Government
- It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson on Government
- It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
- Wendell Willkie on Government
- It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
- John W. Gardner on Government
- It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
- Ansel Adams on Government
- It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
- Herbert Hoover on Government
- It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
- Tony Blair on Government
- It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
- David Mamet on Government
- It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
- Walter Lippmann on Government
- It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
- William E. Gladstone on Government
- It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
- Harold MacMillan on Government
- It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.
- William Hague on Government
- It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.
- Rick Perry on Government
- It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.
- Simon Mainwaring on Government
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