Government Quotes

Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '&pound10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia.

Hugh Jackman

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Frank Zappa

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

Sarah Palin

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

David Attenborough

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

Edward Gibbon

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

Golda Meir

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

James Dyson

It's not tyranny we desire it's a just, limited, federal government.

Alexander Hamilton

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

Elizabeth I

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

Loni Anderson

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

William Godwin

That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

Rush Limbaugh

We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.

George Lincoln Rockwell

The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.

John Podhoretz

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Jonathan Swift

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.

Rick Perry

Good government is no substitute for self-government

Mahatma Gandhi

People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.

Arlen Specter

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.

Fawn Hall