Government Quotes

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.

Iran is an anti-Semitic, terrorist government.

But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government.

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.

South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry.

I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government.

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.

Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.

The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.

Voters did say 'repeal health care,' they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.'

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.