Government Quotes

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government.

That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.

IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

I am against government by crony.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.

The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.

Just like families must live within their budgets, the Federal Government must live within its means. We have passed appropriations bills that have been fiscally responsible while recognizing our national priorities.

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

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.

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.