Government Quotes

There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.

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.

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.

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.

In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.

Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean.

For far too long, the people of Northern Ireland have been denied an equal voice and equal representation in government. It is time for the Assembly and Executive to be up and running and the people's business to be addressed.

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.

It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.

Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.

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.

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.

Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.

American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.

I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that.