U S Government Quotes

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.

I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away with the crime, whoever the victim.

Government does not grow by seizing our freedoms, but by assuming our responsibilities.

Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.

What the people out there are calling for is honesty which has been missing for quite some time now. We are tired of all the deceit and incompetence of this government.

Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.

The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they should create their own jobs and employ their peers and employ other people.

Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders.

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer hours.

Keep government out of the money of the people, schools of the people, and will of the people.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.

Once upon a time, I thought denial was a river in Egypt. It's actually the attitude of the Abbott government.

Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

[T]he kingdom of God... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other governments will be subordinate and by which they will be dominated.

For the Mexican people, for the Mexican government, the very good relationship with the United States of America is, of course, essential.

The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.

It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.

The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.

Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing unaffordable.

... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.

The government doesn't want you to use YOUR drugs, they want you to use THEIR drugs.

Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.

In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system.

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.

No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is going to have to fix the budget.

It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.

Democrats don't resent the rich on behalf of the poor. They resent the rich on behalf of the government.

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects

[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.

In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.

The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.

Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries.

The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves.

Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest.

This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.

The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

State are not made, nor patched; they grow; Grow slow through centuries of pain, And grow correctly in the main; But only grow by certain laws, Of certain bits in certain jaws.