Government Quotes

 

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.|John Adams

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.|Ronald Reagan

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.|Albert Einstein

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?|Charles de Gaulle

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.|Gerald R. Ford

Corruption is the enemy of development and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.|Pratibha Patil

 

 

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.|James Russell Lowell

I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.|William F. Buckley  Jr.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.|Confucius

In the absence of justice      what is sovereignty but organized robbery?|Saint Augustine

The government is us; we are the government     you and I.|Theodore Roosevelt

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.|Vladimir Lenin

It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just           limited           federal government.|Alexander Hamilton

If ‘pro’ is the opposite of ‘con’ what is the opposite of ‘progress’?|Paul Harvey

Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker            it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.|Louis D. Brandeis

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.|Napoleon Bonaparte

Socialism means slavery.|John Dalberg-Acton

Government’s first duty is to protect the people  not run their lives.|Ronald Reagan

Government of the people  by the people           for the people           shall not perish from the Earth.|Abraham Lincoln

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

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

You don’t pay taxes – they take taxes.|Chris Rock

It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.|Tom Stoppard

A state is better governed which has few laws     and those laws strictly observed.|Rene Descartes

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.|Milton Friedman

By definition a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy    but nothing more.|Albert Camus

It is not good to have a rule of many.|Homer

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.|Ludwig von Mises

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves         tax it. If it keeps moving            regulate it. And if it stops moving subsidize it.|Ronald Reagan

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent     hardworking honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then  we elected them.|Lily Tomlin

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately       it’s the government.|Woody Allen

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.|William Penn

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along   paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.|Gore Vidal

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

If there’s anything a public servant hates to do it’s something for the public.|Kin Hubbard

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.|Jorge Luis Borges

All socialism involves slavery.|Herbert Spencer

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.|William Howard Taft

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.|Will Rogers

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.|Abraham Lincoln

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.|Milton Friedman

The government       which was designed for the people           has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers         the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.|Woodrow Wilson

For in reason all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.|Jonathan Swift

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government and what no just government should refuse   or rest on inference.|Thomas Jefferson

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

Mankind        when left to themselves      are unfit for their own government.|George Washington

Talk is cheap – except when Congress does it.|Cullen Hightower

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it’s all checks and no balances.|Gracie Allen

All government wars are unjust.|Murray Rothbard

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.|George W. Bush

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.|Mikhail Gorbachev

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.|George Bernard Shaw

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life    it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement            your financial security       for anything. If you do        you’re screwed.|Drew Carey

To rule is easy          to govern difficult.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe  seldom executed.|Benjamin Franklin

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.|Benazir Bhutto

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature   a type nowhere at present existing.|Herbert Spencer

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.|Laurence J. Peter

A little group of willful men           representing no opinion but their own      have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.|Woodrow Wilson

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate  now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?|Will Rogers

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.|Edmund Burke

The instant formal government is abolished        society begins to act. A general association takes place   and common interest produces common security.|Thomas Paine

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people           under the pretence of taking care of them          they must become happy.|Thomas Jefferson

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco     while my army is starving.|Robert E. Lee

Are we still a country that takes risks       that innovates          that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?|Mitch McConnell

There are three species of government: republican         monarchical and despotic.|Montesquieu

Voters quickly forget what a man says.|Richard M. Nixon

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.|Mikhail Gorbachev

Democracy passes into despotism.|Plato

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.|John Dalberg-Acton

To hear some men talk of the government           you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation     and kept the planets in their places.|Wendell Phillips

If government were a product        selling it would be illegal.|P. J. O’Rourke

Government is essentially immoral.|Herbert Spencer

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.|Andrew Jackson

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.|Richard Lamm

Democracy needs support   and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.|Benazir Bhutto

As a governor           I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.|Bill Owens

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side   the catastrophe is still there.|P. J. O’Rourke

Financial crises require governments.|Timothy Geithner

A corporation’s primary goal is to make money. Government’s primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.|Larry Ellison

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can’t live within its income.|Robert Half

If human beings are fundamentally good no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad            any government       being composed of human beings would be bad also.|Fred Woodworth

If you ask the government to solve all of your problems           it’s a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean       to raise the children to hold down a second job to help with the family finances     to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well         and to also – to do the lawn and clean the gutters.|P. J. O’Rourke

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies      or hereditary dominions independent of the people.|Ezra Stiles

I think governments can’t do much.|Dalai Lama

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States            they have not had one since Lincoln.|Will Rogers

Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather         they look to their portfolios.|Bill Owens

Democracy must learn to defend itself.|Mikhail Gorbachev

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.|Adrian Cronauer

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality     but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.|Wilhelm Reich

I’m tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. We are supposed to work it.|Alexander Woollcott

Washington is a place where politicians don’t know which way is up and taxes don’t know which way is down.|Robert Orben

The worst thing in this world          next to anarchy        is government.|Henry Ward Beecher

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.|Sydney J. Harris

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.|Kay Bailey Hutchison

It is bad policy to regulate everything… where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.|Friedrich List

There is often            in the affairs of government          more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.|John C. Calhoun

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities     treatment centers           homeless shelters and crisis centers – we need our faith-based and community partners.|Dirk Kempthorne

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

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn’t be so bad if the next Congress didn’t keep trying to correct them.|Cullen Hightower

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.|James Q. Wilson

But let us remember at the same time       government is sacred          and not to be trifled with.|Jonathan Mayhew

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.|Dale Dauten

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.|Abraham Lincoln

Every country has the government it deserves.|Joseph de Maistre

Democracy… is a charming form of government full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.|Plato

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.|George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is only an experiment in government           and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.|William Inge

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.|Narendra Modi

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road    don’t expect freedom to survive very long.|Thomas Sowell

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years        to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.|Grover Norquist

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.|John Quincy Adams

But whether the Constitution really be one thing or another     this much is certain – that it has either Lysander Spoonerized such a government as we have had        or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case     it is unfit to exist.|Lysander Spooner

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest    insane            intolerable.|H. L. Mencken

By a continuing process of inflation         government can confiscate secretly and unobserved    an important part of the wealth of their citizens.|John Maynard Keynes

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

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.|Benjamin Disraeli

And I don’t think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does    maybe your belief in God does     maybe there’s another set of moral codes but I don’t think government has a role.|Clarence Thomas

Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent – a government based on the principles of economic       social racial and environmental justice – that struggle continues.|Bernie Sanders

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

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.|George Washington

Everything government touches turns to crap.|Ringo Starr

This Bible is for the government of the people    by the people and for the people.|John Wycliffe

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.|Ansel Adams

Being a patriot doesn’t mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country     knowing when to protect your Constitution        knowing when to protect your countrymen  from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don’t have to be foreign countries.|Edward Snowden

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.|Aung San Suu Kyi

The decision to have an abortion is a deeply personal decision between a woman    her family     her doctor her God; not her government        and not the public at large.|Margaret Hoover

This Metaverse is going to be far more pervasive and powerful than anything else. If one central company gains control of this        they will become more powerful than any government and be a god on Earth.|Tim Sweeney

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can’t afford divisive polity in India.|Manmohan Singh

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy     and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.|Noam Chomsky

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.|Montesquieu

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow        what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?|Willie Nelson

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.|James Reston

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is          but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.|J. C. Watts

The reason there’s so many gay people now is because it’s a chemical warfare operation    and I have the government documents where they said they’re going to encourage homosexuality with chemicals so that people don’t have children.|Alex Jones

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.|Barry Goldwater

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.|Benjamin Franklin

If people lose faith in their government    the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.|John Kennedy

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.|Harry S Truman

If liberty and equality          as is thought by some         are chiefly to be found in democracy       they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.|Aristotle

You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.|Rush Limbaugh

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children    they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.|Michael Badnarik

I don’t blame or complain about things like the economy          the government        taxes  employees            gas prices     or any of the external things that I don’t have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.|Jack Canfield

Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.|Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘Freedom’ means a lot to conservatives     but they have such a narrow sense of what it means. They think a lot about freedom from – freedom from government     freedom from regulation – and precious little about freedom to. Freedom to is absolutely something that has to be safeguarded by good government   just as it could be impaired by bad government.|Pete Buttigieg

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good      for the public good  and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.|James Bovard

Good government is one of the most important factors in economic growth and social well-being.|Joe Lonsdale

Government has no other end         but the preservation of property.|John Locke

All government         indeed every human benefit and enjoyment        every virtue  and every prudent act       is founded on compromise and barter.|Edmund Burke

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence because it’s so rare.|Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom.|Friedrich August von Hayek

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn’t read ‘Democracy in America’ by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.|Kurt Vonnegut

When you are in local government you are on the ground         and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you are there to serve. It teaches you to listen; it teaches you to be expansive in the people with whom you talk to        and I think that that engagement gives you political judgment.|Valerie Jarrett

A limited government is much more likely to be a competent government.|Ron DeSantis

Though the people support the government         the government should not support the people.|Grover Cleveland

We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation of everything. That country is become a great            mighty            and splendid nation; not because their government is strong and energetic   but     sir            because liberty is its direct end and foundation.|Patrick Henry

I’m not really conservative. I’m conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don’t any more.|Clint Eastwood

The weather is like the government           always in the wrong.|Jerome K. Jerome

Secrecy          being an instrument of conspiracy           ought never to be the system of a regular government.|Jeremy Bentham

No matter what your mission is      have some notion in your head. Forget the model          whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can        change your mission.|Jeff Bezos

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

In a parliamentary democracy        it is the job of parliament to decide the law         not the government.|Angela Rayner

Our ability to participate in government   to elect our leaders and to improve our lives is contingent upon our ability to access the ballot. We know in our heart of hearts that voting is a sacred right – the fount from which all other rights flow.|Stacey Abrams

During an economic crisis  what matters is that the government keeps its foot on the accelerator.|David Ignatius

I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials.|Chen Guangbiao

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted         I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people and save in defense will draw my sword on none.|Robert E. Lee

The government serves the people – not vice-versa.|Joe Wilson

Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.|Anthony Albanese

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.|Robert Jackson

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.|Charles Barkley

Aggression is simply another name for government.|Benjamin Tucker

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

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system but it’s only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy        a government of the rich.|Jose Saramago

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government – and they aren’t going to like it.|Huey Long

Government is the great fiction      through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.|Frederic Bastiat

Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to Alan Dershowitzize and which to prevent.|Alan Dershowitz

Strengthening the system and spirit of cooperative federalism my government is taking the states along to achieve national goals.|Ram Nath Kovind

Problems in our country haven’t been caused by Donald Trump          America and its ambitions or CIA spies. Our problems are rooted in a bad government system        the lack of free elections    independent courts and freedom of speech.|Ksenia Sobchak

If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.|Terry Pratchett

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!|Chinua Achebe

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.|Will Durant

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.|Andrew Johnson

Freedom rests on a rational distrust of government; government will always use its power to benefit the incumbent administration.|Jacob Rees-Mogg

Like air pollution     flood risk is a threat that government should be protecting us against.|Barry Gardiner

I stated that aboriginals deserve protection under Canada’s human rights laws and that the record dollars that the government is spending on aboriginals should reach the people in need.|Pierre Poilievre

Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies           as any economist will tell you       often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.|Gavin Newsom

No matter where you stand politically – even if you’re unsure of what your political ideology is – it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.|Brad Henry

The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university   including government and corporations   are not able to control the curriculum or intervene in extra-mural speech.|Judith Butler

When government – in pursuit of good intentions – tries to rearrange the economy   legislate morality            or help special interests      the cost come in inefficiency        lack of motivation   and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee           not an active player.|Milton Friedman

The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.|Orson Pratt

When people think of digital diplomacy   they think of government tweeting. It is not what it is. That is public diplomacy.|Jared Cohen

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.|Richard Perle

I was deposed by a coup d’etat       by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.|Ferdinand Marcos

For the bourgeoisie  the main danger against which it had to be protected    that which had to be avoided at all costs   was armed uprising was the armed people         was the workers taking to the streets in an assault against the government.|Michel Foucault

We have a government that generally speaking  does not respond to the people.|Christopher Reeve

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise   government will of itself decay.|Percy Bysshe Shelley

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.|James K. Polk

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to ‘create’ rights. Rather     they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.|William J. Brennan     Jr.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.|Bertrand Russell

We have had 10 years of bad governance and we may not recover if another bad government is elected.|Amarinder Singh

Democracy is worth dying for        because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.|Ronald Reagan

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government  some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.|Donald Rumsfeld

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches  drafted by others     with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.|Pierre Trudeau

The government       whether state or central      is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.|A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government     no legislature      has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.|Jesse Jackson

Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.|Jesse Ventura

Government unions should not be allowed to influence the public officials they are lobbying        and sitting across the bargaining table from    through campaign donations and expenditures.|Bruce Rauner

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.|Luke Scott

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.|Bruce Schneier

A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.|Otto von Bismarck

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed       which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.|Gouverneur Morris

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy        and in a democracy the government is me   and if the government kills somebody then I’m killing somebody.|Steve Earle

The Ethiopian government’s use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was  in practice    a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces.|Haile Selassie

My view is that the cyber threat is bigger than any one government agency – or even the government itself. But the FBI brings a rare combination of scope and scale          experience    and tools to the mix. We investigate criminal activity like intrusions and cyber attacks          but we also investigate national security threats like foreign influence.|Christopher A. Wray

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.|Tim Robbins

You have the God-given right to kick the government around – don’t hesitate to do so.|Edmund S. Muskie

If any man’s money can be taken by a so-called government    without his own personal consent all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can      and will         hire soldiers to stand over him   compel him to submit to its arbitrary will           and kill him if he resists.|Lysander Spooner

The banking collapse was caused  more than anything by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation      rather than by greed.|Nigel Farage

No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.|Camille Paglia

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

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.|Golda Meir

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.|Federico Fellini

Government is inherently incompetent     and no matter what task it is assigned      it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.|Charley Reese

Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs    in or around government    and often do. In democracies  such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys’ network       is also deemed an abuse of power and so it is.|Jimmy Reid

The human spirit is stronger than any government or institution.|Fela Kuti

I am in favour of disinvestment. But if a disinvested company has to tie up with a government company for its livelihood       there is a problem.|Ratan Tata

I hate government. I’m apolitical. Write that down. I’m not a Republican.|Bruce Willis

The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life    property        and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State.|Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Democracy means government by discussion     but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.|Clement Attlee

Every government says they love small businesses        but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.|Jack Ma

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.|David Rockefeller

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.|Rafael Cruz

The first duty of government is to see that people have food    fuel    and clothes. The second     that they have means of moral and intellectual education.|John Ruskin

Those of us in public office and those of us who aspire to public office have a responsibility to be reasonable     fact-based     in our rhetoric and to not suggest things that are unreasonable to whip up a lot of emotion in public    which can lead to government overreach fear    suspicions    and prejudice.|Jeh Johnson

For any young democracy  the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law including my own.|Joe Biden

There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.|Stokely Carmichael

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.|Brian Schweitzer

If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants     they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government.|Lincoln Steffens

The thing about local government is they want to hear what local people think        but for the most part     their systems are so long    dull and bureaucratic that people only get involved when there’s an issue they really care about.|Konnie Huq

Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political Edmund Morganity. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.|Edmund Morgan

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs and do them well.|Matthew Lesko

The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law      nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.|James Callaghan

We are farmers         nobody in the family has a government job and my family has been supporting me with difficulty. But it is a sort of relief now that I am able to support my family financially besides continuing with my training.|Neeraj Chopra

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.|Ronald Reagan

Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders – companies       governments NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.|Ma Jun

Mobilize your friends and neighbors to understand that your day-to-day involvement with local government matters far more than a referendum on the White House every four years.|Michelle Wu

Wringing your hands about states’ rights  forget it. They’re gone. Basically  the federal government can do whatever it wants. Who’s going to protect the states? My court? Ha – we’re feds!|Antonin Scalia

Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.|Phil Gramm

We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds  field all our men and troops… and force migratory birds to stay where they are.|Vladimir Zhirinovsky

I stated that I’m a libertarian Republican  which means I believe in a series of issues         such as smaller government constraint on budget deficits         free markets globalization and a whole series of other things           including welfare reform.|Alan Greenspan

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers       only minor ones.|Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.|Chester Bowles

Government leaders researchers   physicians    the pharmaceutical industry          cancer advocates            and many other stakeholders all have a key role in promoting a safer healthier environment            better nutrition         increased physical activity and a new emphasis on prevention in cancer research.|Margaret Cuomo

It is unethical to promote old songs sung by new artistes          and the government should ban these things.|Asha Bhosle

Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See        when you believe that racism is a skin problem     you can take three hundred years of slavery       court decisions        marches         and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right.|Tony Evans

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.|William Henry Harrison

I try to put myself in others’ shoes: How does any country give up any sovereignty and expect to survive as a government? I don’t think that any Philippine president    or any leader for that matter          can afford to give up any portion of territorial sovereignty. That would be political suicide.|Benigno Aquino III

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.|Franklin D. Roosevelt

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.|Arlen Specter

I think the government should do everything they possibly can to       to bring this crisis to an end; and that means going after BP   enforcing the laws that are on the books  and restoring the gulf to its original condition.|John Boehner

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.|Elon Musk

Lifting the veil of secrecy that shrouds police misconduct allegations would seem like an obvious democratic value. After all  if police work for the people         should they not be answerable to the people as well? This is a basic tenet of good government.|Maya Wiley

If taxation without consent is robbery      the United States government has never had       has not now     and is never likely to have a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery    then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government      and all their robberies are legalized.|Lysander Spooner

The federal government of Nigeria has always preferred to talk to bona fide Boko Haram leaders about the release of the Chibok girls        but we must have a credible person or persons that will intervene            preferably United Nations or NGOs.|Muhammadu Buhari

Cuba ought to be free and independent    and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.|William McKinley

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation under God     shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people           by the people           for the people      shall not perish from the earth.|Abraham Lincoln

I believe that the primary role of the government is to protect people and not run their lives. You used to be able to believe that in the Democratic Party.|John Kennedy

The License Raj in India was a time when           to set up an industry           you needed a license. Which made the government an omnipresent and sort of all-pervasive Kumar Mangalam Birlaity.|Kumar Mangalam Birla

When you have an efficient government  you have a dictatorship.|Harry S Truman

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves consisting of many and various and powerful interests       combined into one mass     and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.|John C. Calhoun

Louisiana was as close to South Asia as the United States could get: it had spicy food        humidity            giant cockroaches   and a corrupt government.|Sal Khan

I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis      the root cause           is flawed government policies.|Henry Paulson

I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government’s racial policies and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.|Harry Oppenheimer

Just when we need a strong government   what do we see? Division. Chaos. And failure. No credible plan for Brexit          no solution to prevent a hard border in Ireland and no majority in Parliament for the Chequers proposals.|Keir Starmer

Rebellion has its roots in government’s indifference and incompetence.|Mike Barnicle

FDR’s New Deal and           after it            Republican President Dwight Eisenhower’s similar Middle Way    used the government to regulate business           provide a basic social safety net   and promote infrastructure         like roads and bridges.|Heather Cox Richardson

In city hall and in local government          you have to get things done without drama.|Jim Gray

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.|Will Rogers

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant           government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.|Lyn Nofziger

I don’t think that it’s up to government to dictate what people should wear.|Richard Dawkins

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.|Noam Chomsky

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.|Thomas Jefferson

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.|Jordan Peterson

It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national unity does not come from one-sided or inadequate information         but from a sense of freedom impartially secured and of opportunity equalized by a just government.|Jeannette Rankin

If it is a crime to love the South     its cause and its President  then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.|Belle Boyd

Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property.|Milton Friedman

The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement        but by Sober Second Thought.|Martin Van Buren

I can’t in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy       internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they’re secretly building.|Edward Snowden

Let’s make it simple: Government control means uniformity    regulation     fees    inspection     and yes      compliance.|Tom Graves

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.|Andrew Jackson

There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.|Katharine Graham

We were poor           but we didn’t know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends     but I don’t remember ever being hungry.|Paul Harvey

When one gets in bed with government    one must expect the diseases it spreads.|Ron Paul

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

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men         the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place   oblige it to control itself.|Alexander Hamilton

The people’s government    made for the people made by the people and answerable to the people.|Daniel Webster

The era of roadside decisions         declarations have gone. My government’s decisions will be guided by teamwork and consultations.|Mwai Kibaki

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.|Benjamin Disraeli

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people            with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.|Calvin Coolidge

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.|Winston Churchill

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

Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud  and it’s completely decentralized: not the Swiss government   not the American government. It’s all the participants in the network enforcing.|Naval Ravikant

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one         if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.|Annie Besant

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.|Oliver Wendell Holmes        Jr.

A man’s natural rights are his own against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime  whether committed by one man    or by millions; whether committed by one man  calling himself a robber       (or by any other name indicating his true character       ) or by millions         calling themselves a government.|Lysander Spooner

Where might is mixed with wit      there is too good an accord in a government.|Elizabeth I

Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people          and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the government and the Opposition.|Pratibha Patil

In a democracy         people tend to get the kind of government they deserve.|John Lanchester

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system  we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.|Adlai Stevenson I

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.|Grover Norquist

There’d never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke       the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States – alcohol production – and just handed it to criminals – a pretty remarkable thing to do.|Bill Bryson

Many Communist government officials have a rigid      dictatorial power     but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.|Thich Nhat Hanh

The Padma Shri came as a very pleasant surprise. I am deeply honoured. I don’t know what I did to deserve it       but I must have done something right to be honoured by our government.|Sridevi

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.|bell hooks

For those who aspire to live in a high cost           high tax         big government place         our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist           big government paradise you long for.|Marco Rubio

Without the ability to talk about government power       there’s no way for citizens to make sure this power isn’t being misused.|Aaron Swartz

Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.|Aaron Schock

I was in Iraq in the worst period    2006   but from 2006 to 2008        and especially through 2011            the American military and the government of Iraq made huge strides in making that country a source of stability with a relatively representative government that was seeking pluralistic engagement from all the factions within the government.|Tom Cotton

My friends in the opposition have forgotten that the constitution of the Philippines was amended in 1973 with their participation. The constitution mandates the administration  including the Batasan            or legislature to convert slowly into a semiparliamentary form of government. The president in such a situation can issue decrees and edicts.|Ferdinand Marcos

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life’s savings        without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.|Thomas Sowell

Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people ‘disappear’ or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.|Ai Weiwei

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that’s missing       but that will soon be developed    is a reliable e-cash – a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A.|Milton Friedman

Besides a happy policy as to civil government    it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice    equity and public right.|Ezra Stiles

Things in our country run in spite of government           not by aid of it.|Will Rogers

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.|Narendra Modi

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.|William O. Douglas

The Obama administration contends that starting a for-profit business means leaving religious liberty behind. The administration has effectively told the Supreme Court that for-profit companies have no right to act on moral convictions the government opposes. They are about profits. That position is deeply mistaken.|Josh Hawley

The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws     whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.|John Marshall

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.|Henry A. Wallace

Whenever the people are well-informed   they can be trusted with their own government.|Thomas Jefferson

It is what we prevent           rather than what we do that counts most in Government.|William Lyon Mackenzie King

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.|Ronald Reagan

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.|Bob Hawke

Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.|Gautam Adani

The regulator banned cryptocurrency… then there was an order from the Supreme Court. So         in the absence of any strong law         it was very important for us to come out with a comprehensive law-one for the private digital currency and second for the government for its digital form of currency            or the virtual currency.|Anurag Thakur

The consequences of turning a blind eye to government corruption go far beyond simply letting some corrupt politicians and bureaucrats walk free.|Tom Fitton

I don’t think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn’t surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean           why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?|Andy Rooney

The story of Detroit’s bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city    campaign against income inequality   tax the job creators until they flee increase government spending in order to boost employment           promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse            wash and repeat.|Ben Shapiro

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly        the true place for a just man is also a prison.|Henry David Thoreau

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.|C. Northcote Parkinson

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.|Elihu Root

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.|William Howard Taft

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it      is but a prologue to a farce        or a tragedy  or perhaps both.|James Madison

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people      and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.|Franklin D. Roosevelt

The batteries are gradually becoming charged     and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating some day the spark will be generated.|Jose Rizal

A government that can at pleasure accuse shoot and hang men           as traitors      for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will    can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases.|Lysander Spooner

When you give the government an inch    they take a mile.|Matt Salmon

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers     or newspapers without a government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.|Thomas Jefferson

I believe in lower taxes. I believe in more efficient government. I believe in reducing bureaucracy. I believe that we shouldn’t have lobbyists who can go in or former government workers who can come back and lobby.|Mark Cuban

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.|Louis D. Brandeis

Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty   rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government which operates upon them.|Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

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

I’m the treasurer of the state of Ohio         where when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history        and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded  we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund.|Josh Mandel

Man is not free unless government is limited.|Ronald Reagan

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.|Bob Wells

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.|Sam Ewing

The Japanese government has accepted the notion that Japan is the loser       and it appears to be going to accept unconditional surrender. Such a position frustrates the officers and soldiers of the imperial armed forces.|Hideki Tojo

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people           and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property   liberty of conscience and of the press   it will be worth defending.|Andrew Jackson

I don’t consider Americans bullies but I do consider the American government bullying.|George Michael

Of course       running a coalition government in a country like India is a difficult task. More so when Congress leads the coalition           since most of the political parties were anti-Congress. To have a coalition        to run a coalition government       you require a lot of adjustments    a lot of flexibility.|Pranab Mukherjee

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do            because they’re too busy earning a real living     can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.|John Kennedy

My ideas are threatening to the government.|Fela Kuti

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.|Theodore Roosevelt

It is a sound principle of finance   and a still sounder principle of government        that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.|Wilfrid Laurier

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.|H. L. Mencken

Those who cry out that the government should ‘do something’ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.|Thomas Sowell

Ultimately     I do want us to be a transformative government. I want            when we’ve left        for people to say we’re not just clean-green anymore: we’re carbon neutral         or we’re striving to be.|Jacinda Ardern

I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is unpatriotic. I believe a patriot stands up and holds your government’s feet to the fire. Because if you do that you will get good government.|Jesse Ventura

I do think voters are ready for a change in Olympia and after 28 years of one party rule     they are ready to put a new team on the field and bring a new approach to state government.|Rob McKenna

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man  the government’s letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.|Richard Jewell

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

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.|Robert A. Heinlein

I think Britain would be alright      if only we had a different Government.|William Hague

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.|Friedrich August von Hayek

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.|Lysander Spooner

I believe this government cannot endure permanently   half slave and half free.|Abraham Lincoln

Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.|King George V

The role of the church and the government are fundamentally different. The church must always show compassion – always.|Rick Warren

I did not come to Augusta to provide lip service. I came to work for the Maine people. I also came to Augusta to root out crooked politicians and government corruption.|Paul LePage

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don’t vote.|Paul Harvey

You need to be intent on reducing size     scope and influence of government.|Ron DeSantis

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins ‘we the people’            not ‘us the government’.|Cal Thomas

Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives       the constitution makes not one mention of it.|Anthony Albanese

I think that most people who complain about our government have no idea what they’re talking about because they’ve never been to a country with a bad government.|Whitney Tilson

The people of God want pastors    not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.|Pope Francis

In local government it’s very clear to your customers – your citizens – whether or not you’re delivering. Either that pothole gets filled in     or it doesn’t. The results are very much on display        and that creates a very healthy pressure to innovate.|Pete Buttigieg

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star      which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.|Confucius

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong          easy to do right.|William E. Gladstone

Everything that makes man’s life worthwhile – family   work  education      a place to rear one’s children and a place to rest one’s head – all this depends on the decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people           and I mean all of its people.|Robert Kennedy

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.|P. J. O’Rourke

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.|Beau Willimon

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.|William F. Buckley      Jr.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.|Vladimir Lenin

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

I am almost inclined to say that India will get Dominion Responsible Government the day the Hindus and Muslims are united.|Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here  the people rule.|Gerald R. Ford

I believe one of the main roles of Government is to keep our economy free and fair.|Liz Truss

The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful.|Ezra Taft Benson

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny – they should be setting the example of transparency.|Edward Snowden

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it  come on board         or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.|Narendra Modi

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

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

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.|Ronald Reagan

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.|Will Rogers

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government      who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage      who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).|Abraham Lincoln

Globalization doesn’t have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.|John B. Larson

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.|Darrell Issa

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent       dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.|Carl Paladino

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.|William Henry Harrison

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.|William Inge

Unless your government is respectable    foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity    it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality        you must have a strong government.|Alexander Hamilton

My last divorce was in ’68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See            I had promised her that the next year I wouldn’t work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS    and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied       which is something I never did.|B. B. King

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States     they are going to own it.|Woodrow Wilson

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility        all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.|William Lyon Mackenzie King

It is self-evident that no number of men   by conspiring           and calling themselves a government            can acquire any rights whatever over other men or other men’s property      which they had not before      as individuals.|Lysander Spooner

Liberalism     austere in political trifles   has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.|Alexander Herzen

I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do        even if we do not do anything       the revolutionary government of Madame Cory Aquino will collapse.|Ferdinand Marcos

The real goal should be reduced government spending  rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.|Thomas Sowell

In theory        taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.|P. J. O’Rourke

How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency destroying individual responsibility.|Ted Cruz

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned           stop conning yourself.|James Wolcott

It’s easier to sell cotton candy than it is to sell broccoli to somebody  but the broccoli is better for you            and the same thing with a limited government.|Marco Rubio

We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.|Julian Assange

When I wrote ‘The West Wing       ‘ the juice behind it was that in popular culture   our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian   or as idiots. I thought          well    how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?|Aaron Sorkin

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another        then   I say   break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.|Henry David Thoreau

At the end of the day           the government        local government all bow to public pressure.|Ma Jun

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.|Franklin D. Roosevelt

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now       unfortunately           it’s a national disgrace. Sometimes     the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.|Andrew Cuomo

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.|Dixie Lee Ray

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be  as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.|Abraham Lincoln

It seems proper         at all events  that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.|Martin Van Buren

I was at MSNBC; I was constantly saying to them during Bridgegate ‘You’ve convicted Governor Christie without one iota of fact attaching him to the decision to stall the traffic on the bridge. Why don’t we wait until the federal government or the state government… completes its investigation.’|Tom Brokaw

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities it’s an irresponsible government that fails to choose.|Tony Blair

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.|Thomas Jefferson

Well    I thought the deal was         when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!|Joe Biden

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

I think most people realize that our problems are our government       not me and you individually            except that we can – must have some sort of responsibility      because they’re in there and they were elected  so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.|Willie Nelson

It is often said that definitions of Islamic government are imprecise. To me  however        they seemed to have a clarity that was completely familiar and also it must be said          far from reassuring.|Michel Foucault

If you make any money       the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets            and all that don’t get wet you can keep.|Will Rogers

I am the Federal Government.|Tom DeLay

The best thing I can do for someone who’s not in a job is get them in a job    and this government has had the greatest success of any government at getting Australians into work.|Scott Morrison

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.|John Adams

You could afford your house without the government if it weren’t for the government.|Rush Limbaugh

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.|Milton Friedman

The youth should work on popularising central and state government schemes among people. The young generation should make social media their weapon.|Yogi Adityanath

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.|Hubert H. Humphrey

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.|John Maynard Keynes

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period  which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period          it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now       it is understood to be a successful one.|Abraham Lincoln

Al Gore had no problem taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the government of Qatar to sell his Current TV to Al Jazeera America.|Ben Shapiro

Today if you invent a better mousetrap   the government comes along with a better mouse.|Ronald Reagan

The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective   the mentally diseased     and the criminal.|Alexis Carrel

That fatal drollery called a representative government.|Benjamin Disraeli

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.|Thomas Jefferson

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.|Theresa May

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When there is a lack of honor in government      the morals of the whole people are poisoned.|Herbert Hoover

Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights  so that they may be in fact Spaniards            let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously           without damaging reservations  without irritating mistrust.|Jose Rizal

The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.|John Quincy Adams

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess      and your census form is your ticket.|Tom G. Palmer

The inquiry constantly is what will please           not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient       fickleness     and folly.|Alexander Hamilton

When it shall be known that           at the time which I was accused of wishing to sunder this island from France – my benefactress – I repeated the oath of fidelity to her  I take pleasure in believing that the government I own          and my fellow-citizens       will render me the justice I merit  and that the enemies of my brethren will be reduced to silence.|Toussaint Louverture

A government           for protecting business only          is but a carcass        and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.|Amos Bronson Alcott

I didn’t even have a birth certificate until I was 9 years old       which meant that     according to the state of Idaho and the federal government            I just didn’t exist.|Tara Westover

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover        Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.|Thomas Sowell

Democracy means government by the uneducated         while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.|Gilbert K. Chesterton

On account of being a democracy and run by the people           we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years         no matter what it does.|Will Rogers

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.|James Bovard

When times get tough          we get tougher. Failure and government assistance are not an option for us.|Lauren Boebert

The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents            this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue… A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves.|Ben Carson

People thought I was trying to say that women had no say        no rights. I was not saying that. I was saying that women had a role         a duty. When they want to have a say in government – though in Africa they are not expected to do that – they are not discouraged. They can do what they want to do.|Fela Kuti

It is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor        but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor.|Elon Musk

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.|Woodrow Wilson

During Vietnam        I was in college       enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that     in my case    military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.|Al Franken

What’s hurting the U.S. economy is total government spending. The deficit is an indicator that the government is spending so much money that it can’t even get around to stealing all of the money that it wants to spend. But the tip of the iceberg is not what hit the Titanic – it was the 90 percent of the iceberg under water.|Grover Norquist

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty     and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.|George Washington

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.|James K. Polk

The diversity in the faculties of men         from which the rights of property originate        is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.|James Madison

Iran is part of the problem  not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.|Lindsey Graham

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.|P. J. O’Rourke

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.|Ronald Reagan

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask         there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?|Victoria Woodhull

It’s no coincidence that the cities with the highest rates of violence also have the highest rates of unemployment. There are not many opportunities. We have to address that  starting from the government down and the grassroots up.|Teyonah Parris

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt – in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure – to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.|Harry Oppenheimer

India   Pakistan series has always been decided by the government. We toured in 2003-04 when I was the captain and it was for the first time since 1989-90 that we toured Pakistan. There were times even in those days when the series was planned but would get cancelled. So you have to leave it to the government.|Sourav Ganguly

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

Whatever government is not a government of laws        is a despotism          let it be called what it may.|Daniel Webster

What I’m not saying is that all government spending is bad. It’s not – far        far from it     but there is no free lunch as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.|Arthur Laffer

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

I don’t care if you’re a Republican or a Democrat            there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.|Rand Paul

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington  restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.|Rick Perry

A government is for the benefit of all the people.|William Howard Taft

I was nervous about a Corbyn government          although I would have supported it because a lot of the policies were good. I was far more nervous of a Conservative government but here it is           we’ve just got to deal with it.|Roger Allam

They’re always trying to claim that if I talk about world government and corruption           I’m anti-Semitic.|Alex Jones

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.|George Bernard Shaw

Government has to be cut back like asparagus… every day… or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there’s too much of it            the flower becomes a weed.|Paul Harvey

We are a forward-looking people  and we must have a forward-looking government.|Arnold Schwarzenegger

The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time       business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.|Charles Koch

I started a college campus-based nonprofit in June 2012 called Turning Point U.S.A. to target millennials in college. Our mission was to create a powerful conservative grassroots activist network on campuses and identify   educate         train and organize students to promote the principles of freedom         free markets and limited government.|Charlie Kirk

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.|I. F. Stone

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.|Thomas Jefferson

A people cannot long retain their freedom           whose government is incapable of protecting them.|Oliver Ellsworth

A President needs political understanding to run the government        but he may be elected without it.|Harry S Truman

And that’s really what’s happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry  and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread not for our government.|Sharron Angle

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.|Jacqueline Novogratz

The people will save their government     if the government itself will allow them.|Abraham Lincoln

Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed  but they also should have the right to fail.|Matt Salmon

I actually think that working in the federal government or state or local        is one of the most significant things that a technical person can do.|Megan Smith

In the laws of the land         she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic        namely          that ‘taxation without representation is tyranny            ‘ she is taxed without being represented.|Ernestine Rose

During intervals of humanity         some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended    who have been banished by a terror which the government itself has reprobated     & to permit in case of arrestation an investigation of the fact of emigration as well as of the identity of the person accus’d.|John Marshall

Many senior government officials CIA    FBI     counter terrorism officials – when they look back at the decade     they effectively conclude that the United States overreacted after 9/11.|Richard Engel

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling   that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.|William Henry Harrison

The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.|Noam Chomsky

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.|Will Rogers

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

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days         you have bad days   but you never have a boring day   and that’s important to me.|John Kennedy

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up        enabling people.|Milton Friedman

If we say        ‘The government sucks       ‘ we’re kind of saying that we suck.|Michael Moore

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.|Thomas Jefferson

We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times   and it offers as many paths of the true intelligible species and objects of infallible and sole truth as there are individual pedants.|Giordano Bruno

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.|Brian Mulroney

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.|Alexander Hamilton

The more people who are dependent on government handouts the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.|Thomas Sowell

All government         of course       is against liberty.|H. L. Mencken

Because I became a refugee in Macau during 1941        we had this war in Hong Kong      I fought for the government as an air raid warden for 15 days. Our government surrendered      Hong Kong Government surrendered    so I took a junk and came to Macau in 16 hours and I was a refugee  so that’s why I was so much indebted to Macau.|Stanley Ho

But that the people are stronger than the government     and will resist in extreme cases     our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression.|Lysander Spooner

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.|Ronald Reagan

First    we must stop issuing drivers’ licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.|Bobby Jindal

Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.|Anthony Albanese

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman’s personal decisions about her life.|Kathleen Turner

I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.|Ferdinand Marcos

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War            the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.|Hugo Black

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.|Neal Boortz

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant            if not the most momentous event of our generation.|Woodrow Wilson

Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate… It’s what he’s done every day in state government.|Ted Cruz

I had been raised in the mountains of Idaho by a father who distrusted many of the institutions that people take for granted – public education           doctors and hospitals          and the government.|Tara Westover

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

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.|Richard M. Nixon

The laws given on Mount Sinai for the government of man and woman were equal; the precepts of Jesus make no distinction.|Lucretia Mott

A Supreme Court justice must convince at least four colleagues to bind the federal government nationwide    whereas a district court judge issuing a nationwide injunction needn’t convince anyone.|William Barr

I have spoken about inflation         unemployment         farmers’ problems   security         etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.|Narendra Modi

You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing        but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions    and they are not interested too much in government.|Bernard Baruch

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.|Milton Friedman

You see          before I became prime minister    the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.|Paul Keating

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer  that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.|Henry David Thoreau

Government should make tough decisions in the larger national interests      even if it upsets the people.|Sharad Pawar

Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable         nor ever was success so complete.|James Monroe

There’s a total separation between the federal government and the people. So running for president was an attempt on my part to get people to care enough to go vote. But people just don’t bother. And that’s why it’s not working.|Joe Walsh

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

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state     Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.|Ronald Reagan

Gold and silver are always in demand      regardless of clime  century          or government in power. But public confidence in and          hence demand for paper money depends on the ultimate confidence – or lack thereof – of the public in the viability of the issuing government.|Murray Rothbard

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.|Thomas Jefferson

The argument of socialists  that people really want to share    beyond a reasonable level of charity            is rubbish      though it is espoused by a lot of rich        pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation        mob violence           and government seizure of more of their incomes.|Conrad Black

To me it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.|Alice Paul

Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.|Thomas Woods

I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.|Al Franken

The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google   Apple MIT    Harvard         the United States government   and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.|Michael J. Saylor

Government  in the last analysis   is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion            there is likely to be bad government.|William Lyon Mackenzie King

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.|James Russell Lowell

Government proposes         bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.|P. J. O’Rourke

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.|Andrew Jackson

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.|Ben Carson

I stand for all those who feel that the government no longer understands the individual and no longer respects individual rights.|Harvey Milk

The school system has become a part of this huge government machine        governed by people who aren’t close to the situation. That’s why I’m a Republican. I believe in small government.|Stacey Dash

When man lives under government           he is fallen    his worth is gone     and his nature tarnished.|Adam Weishaupt

Government should fear the people           not the other way around.|Killer Mike

I’m LeBron’s ‘No. 1 Critic’ and his ‘Biggest Hater.’ I feel a little like Shailene Woodley’s character in ‘Divergent.’ The government is going to eliminate me because I don’t fit in.|Skip Bayless

It is not questioned that the Federal Government is one of limited powers. Its powers are such      and such only       as are expressly granted in the Constitution or are properly incident to the expressly granted powers and necessary to their execution.|James K. Polk

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world         an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.|Edward Gibbon

We believed that growth through Local Government     and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament           other than the Parliamentary vote         was the real line of progress.|Mary Augusta Ward

This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.|Paul Robeson

Populism is not a style         it’s a people’s rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country – including our economy        government  media and environment.|Jim Hightower

There is an old maxim which states that good judgment comes from experience      and experience comes from poor judgment. I think something similar can be said of government policy    to wit: Good policy comes from experience        and experience comes from poor policy.|Edward C. Prescott

The Republican majority    left to its own devices from 1995 to 2000           was a party committed to limited government and restoring the balances of federalism with the states. Clearly           President Bush has had a different vision      and that vision has resulted in education and welfare policies that have increased the size and scope of government.|Mike Pence

You can auction coal blocks. All natural resources of government should be auctioned.|Subramanian Swamy

The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.|Lal Bahadur Shastri

It is important to realize that gold and silver are international commodities and that therefore       when not prohibited by government decree         foreign coins are perfectly capable of serving as standard moneys.|Murray Rothbard

A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.|Jarvis Cocker

The 20th century shows that the form of government that we take for granted          a constitutional democratic republic with checks and balances and a rule of law – that form of government is usually temporary.|Timothy D. Snyder

The government of the Union        though limited in its powers          is supreme within its sphere of action and its laws   when made in pursuance of the constitution       form the supreme law of the land.|John Marshall

By mandating equal pay      the government erases the competitive advantage of those people who are willing to take less pay. In addition           employers are less willing to hire employees who they believe could subject them to increased liability.|Kane

Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that’s at the state   local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look   at some point     you cease being a free economy   and you become a government economy. And we’ve got to stop that.|Mitt Romney

I believe always you should have a philanthropic heart inside but business way. Because you have to get things done. That is what scientists tell us how to do properly. Business should tell us how to get things done efficiently. And government should have the good environment and the foundations of researching.|Jack Ma

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.|John Stuart Mill

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one       too     of the most arbitrary and criminal character.|Lysander Spooner

In the United States  the government has no business entering the marketplace of ideas to establish an arbiter of what is false         misleading    or a political smear.|Ajit Pai

Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.|Said Musa

Project management is not hard in the same way that theoretical physics is hard – there are tried and trusted methods that a lot of people without exceptional talents can use – yet we can’t embed it in government.|Dominic Cummings

Any number of scoundrels having money enough to start with           can establish themselves as a ‘government’; because         with money  they can hire soldiers          and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will.|Lysander Spooner

Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.|Gautam Adani

It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern – such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn     however            that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.|Adam Cohen

Let those men who still have these misguided ideas       let those men who still have these hallucinations           realize that by anarchism   by dastardly crimes they cannot bring about good government; let them realize that these methods have not succeeded in any country of the world and are not likely to succeed in India.|Muhammad Ali Jinnah

As a Cherokee          I can attest to the fact that Native Americans have been on the losing side of history. Our rights have been infringed upon       our treaties have been broken       our culture has been stolen    and our tribes have been decimated at the hands of our own United States government.|Markwayne Mullin

Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending   excessive taxation          oppressive regulation         food shortages         fuel shortages or natural disasters such as deadly pandemics or lethal changes in the world’s climate.|Robert Higgs

I tell the government            if people have no jobs         you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.|Jack Ma

We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop         mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly and with dignity      while responding to their needs.|Atifete Jahjaga

If a debt crisis results from government profligacy and mismanagement        rather than from a market failure it is true that the central bank should not intervene.|Gita Gopinath

My impression          having been in the Norwegian government for several years   is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort when the situation warrants it      for the well-being of the children.|Jonas Gahr Store

What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living     to help them get jobs get kids to schools  and have access to medicine and hospitals. Government may not directly provide these public goods and services but government must be accountable for whether or not they are delivered to citizens.|Mo Ibrahim

Socialism’s not a word that I use. I say ‘social democracy’ because I don’t think the government needs to own all the means of production.|David Cunliffe

Today we see how utterly mistaken was the Milton Friedman notion that a market system can regulate itself… Everyone understands now on the contrary        that there can be no solution without government.|Paul Samuelson

When you are in the infrastructure sector you’ve to work along with the government.|Gautam Adani

Part of Obamacare eliminated the private sector financial market that engages in giving college student loans. I mean now the federal government has taken over college student loans      so I sit back and strategically look at this and say this just cannot be happening.|Allen West

I don’t want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire ’em.|Gallagher

The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government            the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.|Dana Schutz

The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789           undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the Jefferson Davisity delegated for the purposes of Government.|Jefferson Davis

To meet someone who wants to fight to just tell the truth about what’s happening in government… this is a real life superhero right here.|Aja Naomi King

In my view    Reform and Opening Up began with the abandonment of the ‘using class struggle as guiding principle’ government policy of the Mao era and          in its place    a commitment to economic development and social harmony.|Liu Xiaobo

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.|Joe Biden

On trade         a Conservative government would challenge China’s actions on canola and meat imports through the World Trade Organization and withdraw funding from the Chinese-run Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank.|Erin O’Toole

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.|Buffalo Bill

The government       of course       will print money to bail out the banks’ uncovered casino bets but not to bail out the elderly from the theft of their funds.|Paul Craig Roberts

I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they were waiting for the next tax increase before they started growing their business. I’ve never met a single job creator who’s ever said to me I can’t wait until government raises taxes again so I can go out and create a job.|Marco Rubio

The multi-party agreement known as the Global Political Agreement (GPA)           created the Government of National Unity (GNU) that has acted as Zimbabwe’s governing institution since 2009.|Roy Bennett

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is         that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it           and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.|Walter Bagehot

The government should not be in control of the private sector. You create opportunity       you create business         you create development     you hand it to the investor and start creating something new.|Mohammad bin Salman

When I was trying to figure out how the government might go about creating the camps in ‘The Darkest Minds ‘ I researched the Japanese internment camps here in the United States           specifically propaganda the government used  and how they capitalized on people’s fears.|Alexandra Bracken

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There’s no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn’t a gift. It’s a responsibility.|Dalton Trumbo

Any government has to be friendly with investors and the business community. They provide jobs            new investments; they keep the country running.|Naguib Sawiris

Why is it is claimed that if people won’t or can’t take care of their own needs           that people in government can do it for them?|Ron Paul

Prodded by the needs of the Union cause the Republican Party created a strong national government that educated young men and gave them land to farm. Ultimately       the GOP abolished slavery then gave freedmen the vote so they could protect their own economic interests.|Heather Cox Richardson

Exporting oil would not drive up prices at the pump. American drivers buy refined products        which the U.S. already exports. Many studies – from a range of institutions and government agencies            including the Congressional Budget Office and the Energy Information Administration – have shown that lifting the export ban could actually lower gas prices.|Harold Hamm

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.|Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I have had many opportunities to flee HK            but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts     because I have faith in Hong Kong’s rule of law.|Edward Snowden

In a vast and diverse country like India    a political party with secular ideology can ensure stable and progressive government.|Zeenat Aman

All school districts receive funds from the federal government through the Department of Education            to support anti-drug education efforts.|John Walters

As Eric Weitz argues           the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) was not responsible for the Reich; it was a democratic      socially aware and progressive government        way ahead of many other European governments in its introduction of workers’ rights    public housing         unemployment benefit and suffrage for women.|Justin Cartwright

The political outcome that is desired is one which makes any government sensitive to the pulse of the people and their welfare      allowing any ruling party to govern without gridlock while promoting the political openness that so many of us yearn for in Singapore.|Pritam Singh

Having said that       I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress – it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event            and especially in this time of national emergency.|Chris Chocola

Make no mistake about it    my friends – Republicans   the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.|David Scott

South Sydney is a very complicated and wonderful place. You have some of the most expensive bits of real estate in the country and a large percentage of government housing.|Russell Crowe

The supply of medicines for our servicemen and women should not be dependent on the decisions of the Chinese Government.|Abigail Spanberger

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs  drug abuse    poverty          illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets           legislation     offices            officials        letterhead – everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.|Bruce Jackson

Growth is what solves most of the big economic and social problems: poverty        government deficits           quality of life           rising healthcare and retirement costs.|Sergio Ermotti

I realize the voters elected President Obama in 2012     but they also in 2014          elected enough Republican senators to gain a majority in the Senate      so we control the confirmation process. And these are two supposedly coequal branches of government involved in this filling of a Supreme Court vacancy.|Ron Johnson

Historic Royal Palaces is an independent charity without funding from the royal family or the government. But I have met the Queen     she comes to open projects and she is always very interested.|Lucy Worsley

Every one says: ‘Listen        I’d love to reinvest. I’d love to hire people. But I have no idea what this healthcare bill is going to do to my bottom line. I have no idea what this financial reform bill is going to do… I’m not going to step out a limb and do any of those until I know what this government is going to do to me.’|Kristi Noem

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.|Ralph Nader

Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful          peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes.|Michelle Malkin

It began to really eat away with me that in the ’60s the federal government   desiring to help poor moms who were dealing with deadbeat dads       decided         ‘We’ll help: we’ll give a check for every child you can have out of wedlock.’|Louie Gohmert

While I’d like to be able to simply do all of my financings with a handshake or        possibly        on a napkin written in crayon     I also wish I had a herd of unicorns surrounded by rainbows  a balanced U.S. government budget      and agreement on how to address the debt ceiling issue.|Brad Feld

Our party and the Republic’s government will go hand in hand with anyone who truly desires the country’s reunification and the nation’s peaceful prosperity and will make responsible and patient efforts to accomplish the historic cause of the fatherland’s reunification.|Kim Jong-un

Increasing the sale of liquor may benefit the government in terms of revenue. But liquor is a social evil            and its biggest victims are women and their children.|Sudha Murty

Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.|John Perry Barlow

Certainly in North Korea     man is always superior to woman. Even the government treats women horribly. What is the slogan? Woman is a flower.|Lee Hyeon-seo

We’re the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision.|Byron White

Free enterprise makes people prosperous all people prosperous         and big government makes people poorer.|Marco Rubio

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies – rather than as your civic duty – is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.|Tom G. Palmer

The consensus of the founders was           we don’t want no government: we want limited but effective government.|Chris Gibson

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population         but not beyond that.|Noam Chomsky

We are committed to a continuous engagement with our people to explain government policies   receive advice and criticism.|Yemi Osinbajo

If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming           could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?|Pete du Pont

If a British government experienced such a long and persistent resistance to domestic policy in England            then that policy would almost certainly be changed… We have asserted that we are political prisoners        and everything about out country – our arrests   interrogations          trials  and prison conditions – show that we are politically motivated.|Bobby Sands

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.|Jerrold Nadler

Sadly  the system in this country is rigged in favor of wealthy elites who have purchased tremendous influence in our government.|Tulsi Gabbard

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.|Herbert Hoover

It was very shocking for me to read newspapers that openly criticised the government in South Korea. That is impossible in North Korea and almost impossible in China. I was really impressed and I became addicted to reading the news and watching the media so I could learn about the world. North Koreans would be stunned if they experienced this.|Lee Hyeon-seo

In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.|Martin Van Buren

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.|Andrew Jackson

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.|Al Gore

I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don’t blame or complain about things like the economy      the government        taxes  employees    gas prices     or any of the external things that I don’t have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.|Jack Canfield

The very existence of government at all   infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not           so long as he is the repository of power   and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.|James Fenimore Cooper

Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen         including military personnel       to the government of another country      it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment   the fairest treatment and the most humane treatment.|Howard Baker

I believe investigative agencies should be run in an autonomous manner       and there shouldn’t be any interference from the government’s side.|Piyush Goyal

Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes they could not afford and failed to count the cost. When the financial crisis of 2008 hit      they could not keep up the monthly mortgage payments and defaulted.|Mark Skousen

The problem is that the American public is suspicious of executive power shrouded in secrecy. In the absence of an official picture of what our government is doing and by what Jeh Johnsonity          many in the public fill the void by envisioning the worst.|Jeh Johnson

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.|Lee Iacocca

Instead of helping a lucky few to escape disadvantage  a Labour government will aim to abolish poverty completely and create a more equal society       raising the living standards and well-being of all.|Angela Rayner

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.|Louis D. Brandeis

The so-called second New Deal of 1935 – including the Works Progress Administration    Social Security and the Wagner Act legalizing union labor – represented an effort to meet the rising voices demanding a more aggressive government approach to the collapse of national prosperity.|Robert Dallek

The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.|Jack Layton

We can’t have democracy if we’re having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we’ve never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are    what kind of surveillance the government is going to do          and how and why.|Larry Page

Sure    I considered myself an anarchist; I considered myself – I still am        obviously – distrustful of the government. But I also understand the virtues of civility or democracy and kindness    of course. I wasn’t throwing garbage cans through shop windows.|Justin Theroux

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.|Marco Rubio

I know that government doesn’t have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead            the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.|Kathleen Blanco

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.|James K. Polk

I have seen businesses and government come together to provide women entrepreneurs with the training they need to better access markets take advantage of trade agreements          and in the process grow businesses     jobs    and GDP. These are partnerships that transform lives.|Melanne Verveer

Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush’s ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.|Donald Sutherland

The Chinese government learnt how to manage the Internet from Western developed countries; we have not learnt enough yet.|Lu Wei

I spent a lot of my early blogging career sort of highlighting all the ills of the government in Kenya and all the corruption and problems.|Ory Okolloh

The responsibility of philanthropy rests with us. The wealthier we are           the more powerful we get. We cannot put the entire onus on the government.|Azim Premji

I’ve spent a lot of time researching the subject and government deception. So to be involved in Star Trek is perfect for me. I enjoy meeting the fans and discussing my interests with them.|Dwight Schultz

We must get government out of the way and help foster an environment where small businesses are free to grow and create jobs.|Sam Graves

I want people to feel like they have access to Congress that they have access to government.|Rashida Tlaib

The government can’t create jobs; they’ll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn’t have any money; all they have is a printing press. We need to free markets to create jobs; if the government wants to help they should reduce their burden on the economy.|Peter Schiff

In fact blockchain has the potential to fundamentally change how we share information    buy and sell things      interact with government   prove our identity   and even verify the authenticity of everything – from the food we eat to the medicine we take to who we say we are.|Julie Sweet

After 20 years in Congress  I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.|Howard Coble

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

I want a smaller government          yes     but I want a government that will be fair.|Maxime Bernier

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.|Amity Shlaes

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.|Lyn Nofziger

We are ready to end fascism once and for all       even in spite of the Republican government.|Buenaventura Durruti

I didn’t think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interned without a hearing.|Fred Korematsu

As I prepare to take over the reins of your government  I ask each of you to join me in the process of governing.|David Ige

It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government.|Mitt Romney

For about 125 years give or take  the Canadian government has acted extremely badly – even in a way which should be called evil – breaking treaties    breaking agreements.|John Ralston Saul

From the very depth of my being   I challenge the right of any man or any group of men   in business or in government      to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.|Jimmy Reid

To take over a government through military force would create instability    and it would not last for long. I do not want to leave a legacy of having taken over the government through military means. It has never occurred to me to have a coup d’etat.|Suharto

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

Well    now    and there’s – for every dollar the federal government spends   there’s real people on the other side       and so when we talk about reductions that are going to affect providers       that’s going to affect hospitals and doctors and others.|Franklin Raines

In the business world           lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true – demand for our services increases in hard times.|Sonny Perdue

The overwhelming majority of new mortgages are issued with government backing in a highly concentrated securitization market. That leaves us with both potential taxpayer liability and systemic risk.|Jerome Powell