U S Government Quotes

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.

All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?

We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he that pays the price.

The government will take the fairest of names, but the worst of realities--mob rule.

I only ask of the Government to be treated as all other men are treated. If I cannot go to my own home, let me have a home in a country where my people will not die so fast.

In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.

When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.

Legalizing abortion to get government out of the bedroom is like legalizing cannibalism to get government out of the kitchen.

In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.

As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful, and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government.

If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.

Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master.

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.

What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?

Initiative and referendum make government more responsive to its citizens, neutralize the power of the special interests and stimulate public involvement in state issues.

Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people.

Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.

I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up.

I don't trust the church or the government, and anything the church or the government tells me I assume to be a lie or a conspiracy, until proven true.

The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents.

That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government.

The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty.

Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop.

Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power, instead of a limitation on all government power.

...guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.

The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.

If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.

A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.

Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be.

A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.