Government Quotes
- Page 2Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.
William Weld
The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002.
Jenny Shipley
We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.
Stephen Harper
Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong.
John Jay Hooker
Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved.
Michael Newdow
Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.
Vincente Fox
Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.
Andrew Cuomo
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
Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.
Luke Scott
When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America.
DeForest Soaries
If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.
John Major
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.
Darrell Issa
A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward.
Mark Foley
If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government.
George Crook
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
It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.
William Hague
The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.
Amy Goodman
Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations.
Timothy McVeigh
To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.
Jim Gibbons
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France
I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.
Kay Bailey Hutchison
When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
Thomas Clarkson
We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either.
Robert Menendez
We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
Barbara Jordan
Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.
Louise Slaughter
We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.
John Pilger