Government Quotes

The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way.

We have a lot of things we give away to people who are very, very wealthy in this country. And I'm not sure that our federal government can afford that.

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.

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

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.

Thank God for some Republican control of one branch of the government.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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

The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush.

You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed.

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that.

We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.

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.

I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government.

But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.

But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.

And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.

So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.

In many cases, the Treasury will get preferred or convertible preferred stock for the money it gives to banks. These shares typically don't have voting rights, possibly to give more of a hands-off appearance to the government.

'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.