Government Quotes

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.

Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property "without just compensation." The basic model of an unconstitutional "taking" would be if the government threw you out of your house.

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

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.