Government Quotes

The basis of effective government if public confidence.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

P. J. O'Rourke

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

P. J. O'Rourke

Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.

Gerhard Kocher

Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Gerhard Kocher

The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain, by fear, nor to exact obedience, but contrariwise, to free every man from fear, that he may live in all possible security; in other words, to strengthen his natural right to exist and work without injury to himself or others.No, the object of government is not to change men from rational beings into beasts or puppets, but to enable them to develop their minds and bodies in security, and to employ their reason unshackled; neither showing hatred, anger, or deceit, nor watched with the eyes of jealousy and injustice. In fact, the true aim of government is liberty.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

When George Washington threw the dollar across the Rappahannock River, he didn't realize he was establishing a precedent for government spending.

Harold Coffin, "The San Francisc

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

John Hospers

Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Miguel de Cervantes

In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.

Rick Perry

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

Vladimir Lenin

I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.

Curt Schilling

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

Jim DeMint

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?

Andy Rooney

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.

Andrew Cuomo

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Harry S. Truman

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

John Foster Dulles