U S Government Quotes

Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.

I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world.

It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well.

I had a 20-year, stellar government career.

Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.

There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.

Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen.

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.

The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world.

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.

Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.

When taxes are too high, people go hungry. When the government is too intrusive, people lose their spirit. Act for the people's benefit. Trust them; leave them alone.

So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.