U S Government Quotes

From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.

When business accepts help from the government, it can be like going to bed with a hippopotamus. It's nice and warm for the moment, but then your bedmate rolls over and crushes you.

Traditionally people are on the side of the government all the time.

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

Federal government shutdowns are unsettling, because you realize how little you depend on it compared to the money you give in taxes.

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.

Government is the enemy until you need a friend.

Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.

Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand for personal freedom.

For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement.

Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.

Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

The king reigns but does not govern.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

We have gold because we cannot trust governments

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

At the end of the day government is about teamwork and partnership and we will be proving that by working together.

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.

Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.

How many are worried about a government shutdown? How many are more worried about it starting back up?

Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.

The Congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.

I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice.

The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.

Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

The government doesn't run the economy. The economy is run by the private sector. The job of the president is to ensure we [the state] have policies that allow the private sector to grow and prosper.

Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.

Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.