Government Quotes

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these decisions they make.

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

We need a government that is what we are at our best. Smart, efficient, pragmatic and compassionate.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.

I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

So actually we didn't have any contacts with UFO organizations. It was all strictly government.

In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.

Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.

Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We think that both might be able to agree that nudging can maintain free markets, and liberty, while also inclining people in good directions.

I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.

The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.