Government Quotes

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.

Marco Rubio

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Jeremy Bentham

The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.

Simon Mainwaring

We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.

Ron Paul

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

Muqtada al Sadr

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

Ron Paul

You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.

Marco Rubio

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

P. J. O'Rourke

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Comte De Mirabeau

Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people.

Muqtada al Sadr

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

George Will

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

Jim DeMint

If most of those who took part in this one-dimensional debate were honest with themselves, they would admit that they do not in principle believe that the United States can do any good overseas for anyone but the American government, its armed forces, or privileged American elites.

Christopher Hitchens

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

Gary Bauer

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

Stokely Carmichael

The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.

Ronald Reagan

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb