Government Quotes

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.

Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.

I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.

Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?

While these attitudes are more visible when direct- ed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.

The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role.

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.

The government would also be wise to press on with its further measures to promote growth, as it will want to outperform the low figures in this outlook. This will mean delivering measures to ease money and credit and to stimulate demand.

Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy.

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?

It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.