U S Government Quotes

Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of.

A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

A real possibility now exists for a Government that is not led by either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil

God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically all things.

While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

I don't run a woman government. I run a government of people.

Almost every great innovation was [created] by government.

An individual citizen cannot protect himself from the powers of large corporations or external governments. It is the responsibility of the government to protect its citizens.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.

Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history.

The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

We should view our government the way we should a friendly, cuddly lion. Just because he's friendly and cuddly shouldn't blind us to the fact that he's still got teeth and claws.

The truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks government at will.

If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.

No, his mind is not for rent To any God or government Always hopeful yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But change is.

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

I dream of a Digital India where Government services are easily and efficiently available to citizens on Mobile devices.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens.

A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.

Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.

Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out.

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.