Government Quotes

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

We do participate in the government programs, like probably 95 percent of farmers do. People who aren't familiar with the agriculture industry, you know, try and make that look like something exceptional.

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.

The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.

In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.

In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

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

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.

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

We have to have the faithful in government.

Maryland needs someone in Congress who will fight to create jobs, stop out-of-control government spending and defend small businesses.

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

First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.

Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.

The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

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

Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.

We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other.

We in Congress need to do everything possible to encourage and cultivate small businesses, so that they can expand and create jobs. Far too often, however, U.S. small businesses are impeded by government paperwork and bureaucratic red tape.