Government Quotes

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.

We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionally limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.

I don't want a government shutdown. I don't think anyone does.

Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.

The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves.

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.

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.

For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from.

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.

I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.

There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.

I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

I mean, I really don't want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about the environment or about animals or about certain religious issues should be considered an extremist. That to me is a type of thought control, mind control, which is very dangero

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be surpassed by China as the number one purchaser of our debt in this Nation.

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

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.

Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals.

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

We need to get rid of the 16th amendment, and return to the original system that funds government with a variety of tariffs and duties.