Top government Quotes Collection - Page 2

Discover a curated collection of government quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category. Page 2 provides more government quotes.

Image of John B. Larson
Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.
- John B. Larson
Collection: Government
Image of Kay Granger
It was while starting my business that I saw my first glimpse of government's impact on business.
- Kay Granger
Collection: Government
Image of Pete Buttigieg
Safety and security are the most basic job of government. I understand that - both as a mayor who works every day to secure public safety and reduce crime, and also as someone who deployed in uniform to Afghanistan because I believed joining the military was part of my duty to help keep my country safe.
- Pete Buttigieg
Collection: Government
Image of Alice Walker
A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.
- Alice Walker
Collection: Government
Image of Gerald R. Ford
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
- Gerald R. Ford
Collection: Government
Image of Abraham Lincoln
In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: Government
Image of Jenifer Lewis
My friends were dropping like flies, and the government wasn't doing anything. You don't watch an entire generation take water hoses and dogs on the front line during the '60s or watch another generation perish from AIDS and then get to drive around in big cars and do nothing.
- Jenifer Lewis
Collection: Government
Image of John Lynch
The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest.
- John Lynch
Collection: Government
Image of Andrew Forrest
We do need an attitude of leadership in our government which demonstrates faith in major population centres outside of Perth.
- Andrew Forrest
Collection: Government
Image of Mary Wollstonecraft
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
Collection: Government
Image of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Collection: Government
Image of Alexander Hamilton
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
- Alexander Hamilton
Collection: Government
Image of Angela Rayner
In a parliamentary democracy, it is the job of parliament to decide the law, not the government.
- Angela Rayner
Collection: Government
Image of Hiram Rhodes Revels
I stand today on this floor to appeal for protection from the strong arm of the government for her loyal children, irrespective of color and race, who are citizens of the southern states, and particularly of the State of Georgia.
- Hiram Rhodes Revels
Collection: Government
Image of Andrew Jackson
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
- Andrew Jackson
Collection: Government
Image of Plato
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
- Plato
Collection: Government
Image of Yogi Adityanath
I have said it previously and saying it again... my government will work for betterment of all, irrespective of caste or religion.
- Yogi Adityanath
Collection: Government
Image of Charlie Kirk
Many textbooks fail to present students with both sides of an issue. Students are being pushed toward an education that demonizes free enterprise while advocating top-down government, deficit spending and class warfare.
- Charlie Kirk
Collection: Government
Image of Brad Henry
No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.
- Brad Henry
Collection: Government
Image of Al Sharpton
My message to everyone: the next time you hear about migrant children near the border, just picture them as your own. Then think what you would want our government to do.
- Al Sharpton
Collection: Government
Image of Phyllis Schlafly
If we don't stop immigration - this torrent of immigrants coming in - we're not going to be America anymore because most of the people coming in have no experience with limited government. They don't know what that is.
- Phyllis Schlafly
Collection: Government
Image of Barkha Dutt
I'm not a big fan of government interference in most matters.
- Barkha Dutt
Collection: Government
Image of Lauren DeStefano
Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.
- Lauren DeStefano
Collection: Government
Image of Lysander Spooner
If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.
- Lysander Spooner
Collection: Government
Image of H. L. Mencken
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Government
Image of David Ignatius
During an economic crisis, what matters is that the government keeps its foot on the accelerator.
- David Ignatius
Collection: Government
Image of Anthony Albanese
Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.
- Anthony Albanese
Collection: Government
Image of Vermin Supreme
Once every American has a pony then I can - by fiat, executive order or something like that - dismantle the federal government with a snap of my magic fingers.
- Vermin Supreme
Collection: Government
Image of Lee Kuan Yew
Freedom of the news media must be subordinated to the overriding needs of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.
- Lee Kuan Yew
Collection: Government
Image of Clement Attlee
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
- Clement Attlee
Collection: Government
Image of Richard Thaler
As a general rule, the United States government is run by lawyers who occasionally take advice from economists. Others interested in helping the lawyers out need not apply.
- Richard Thaler
Collection: Government
Image of Tom Robbins
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
- Tom Robbins
Collection: Government
Image of Ron Kind
Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.
- Ron Kind
Collection: Government
Image of Gerald R. Ford
Truth is the glue that holds government together.
- Gerald R. Ford
Collection: Government
Image of Grover Norquist
Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.
- Grover Norquist
Collection: Government
Image of John Reed
In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.
- John Reed
Collection: Government
Image of Richard M. Nixon
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
- Richard M. Nixon
Collection: Government
Image of Ronald Reagan
Man is not free unless government is limited.
- Ronald Reagan
Collection: Government
Image of Jose Rizal
The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities.
- Jose Rizal
Collection: Government
Image of Bobby Fischer
I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
- Bobby Fischer
Collection: Government
Image of Kevin Mitnick
I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations and the government.
- Kevin Mitnick
Collection: Government
Image of John Adams
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
- John Adams
Collection: Government
Image of Roy Moore
But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.
- Roy Moore
Collection: Government
Image of Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Collection: Government
Image of Geronimo
The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.
- Geronimo
Collection: Government
Image of Elon Musk
Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.
- Elon Musk
Collection: Government
Image of Milton Friedman
I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash - a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A.
- Milton Friedman
Collection: Government
Image of Arlen Specter
The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.
- Arlen Specter
Collection: Government
Image of Winston Churchill
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill
Collection: Government