- The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.
- John Podhoretz on Government
- The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
- Pat Robertson on Government
- The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Government
- The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
- Newt Gingrich on Government
- The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.
- Carly Fiorina on Government
- The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.
- Muqtada Al Sadr on Government
- The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.
- Rupert Murdoch on Government
- The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.
- Andy Stern on Government
- The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on Government
- The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.
- Simon Mainwaring on Government
- The universe never did make sense I suspect it was built on government contract.
- Robert A. Heinlein on Government
- The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.
- Theresa May on Government
- The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.
- Tom Coburn on Government
- The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
- Lewis Mumford on Government
- The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
- Jerome K. Jerome on Government
- The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.
- Milton Friedman on Government
- The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken on Government
- The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Government
- There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.
- Jesse Ventura on Government
- There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets.
- Tim Scott on Government
- There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.
- Nelson Mandela on Government
- There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
- Gerald R. Ford on Government
- There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
- Andrew Jackson on Government
- There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
- Charles De Secondat on Government
- There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
- Stokely Carmichael on Government
- There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.
- Ehud Olmert on Government
- There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
- John Adams on Government
- There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
- Benjamin Franklin on Government
- There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
- Michel De Montaigne on Government
- There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
- Jack Kevorkian on Government
- There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.
- Arthur C. Brooks on Government
- There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.
- Ron Paul on Government
- There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
- Ron Paul on Government
- There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.
- Steve Forbes on Government
- There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.
- Ray Bradbury on Government
- There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums.
- Theresa May on Government
- There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.
- Marco Rubio on Government
- There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
- Will Rogers on Government
- There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.
- Sean Connery on Government
- These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.
- Lucy Powell on Government
- Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
- Will Rogers on Government
- This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.
- Rick Perry on Government
- This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
- John Wycliffe on Government
- This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
- Will Rogers on Government
- This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
- Abraham Lincoln on Government
- This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
- Benjamin Carson on Government
- This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.
- Dee Dee Myers on Government
- This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.
- Paul Ryan on Government
- This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
- Kate Millett on Government
- This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.
- Mitt Romney on Government
1 2 3 4 5