Government Quotes

Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert

The vast majority of administrators, at all times and in all societies, are prone to commit grievous...

While the seeming independence of the federal judiciary has played a vital part in making its action...

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler w...

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their ...

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of Ind...

I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book...

The government belongs to the poor people of the country. We are custodian of people's hope. For who...

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, ...

A theory is like medicine (or government): often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, ...

Many people are seeking, at this very moment, to shelter themselves under the wing of the federal ea...

I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based pa...

If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise...

The U.S. government needs to learn from successful private businesses that run an effective and effi...

It was an idea that made the crucial difference between British and Iberian America – an idea about ...

Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and...

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

I need to say this – you shouldn't trust any government, actually including this one. You should not...

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure ...

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the surviva...

This gentleman evidently belonged to the category of those people who wish the Government to interfe...

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

The foundation of all free government and all social order must be laid in families and in the disci...

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all ch...

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Up...

There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfact...

The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural d...

The debt is being cynically exploited by the far right, with collusion of the Democrat establishment...

Reigning doctrines are often called a "double standard".The term is misleading.It is more accurate t...

I think maybe the classic formulation was by David Hume in "Of the First Principles of Government," ...

Corporations barely pay taxes. The corporate tax rate is already very low, but corporations have wor...

[W]e have a democracy that uses free elections to put in place known obstructionists, and a media th...

In his book Politics, which is the foundation of the study of political systems, and very interestin...

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, a...

My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. g...

The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal g...

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels ...

Government is all show when it isn't murder in the dark ... or soldiers in the open.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.

All political meetings are very much alike. Somebody gets up and introduces the speaker of the eveni...

Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled...

Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the indiv...

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is ...

We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop...

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and s...

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove t...

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove t...

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it t...

The whole idea of government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can tak...

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of ...

There could be nothing, he reflected, to equal a government which was simply the honest enforcement,...

Despite massive evidence to the contrary, libertarians hold tight to their romantic concept of capit...

Because of the failure of the federal government to enforce federal law, we now have 'banks too big ...

I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and...

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resu...

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come fr...

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; an...

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resu...

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come fr...

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; an...

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resu...

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come fr...

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; an...

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resu...

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come fr...

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; an...

Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese.

The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, a...

I'm totally against straight marriage - even though I'm married. I don't think heterosexual marriage...

Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government...

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world o...

Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to co-ordinating pro...

Google has withdrawn from China, arguing that it is no longer willing to design its search engine to...

To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, e...

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort o...

The State is like a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and re...

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Since man always remains free and since his freedom is always fragile, the kingdom of good will neve...

Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of pr...

Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the gove...

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnows.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

I desire a society which selects its rulers from the best elements of every class and denies the rig...

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. you must change man, not sy...

Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candi...

This is the history of governments, - one man does something which is to bind another. A man who can...

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese American...

One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had th...

I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a ...

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to star...