Government Quotes

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Auberon Herbert

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

James Reston

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

Henry Clay

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.'

Scott Walker

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Russell Lowell

A government of laws, and not of men.

John Adams

For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.

Marco Rubio

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

James Q. Wilson

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

Will Rogers

We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.

Mehmet Oz

Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.

Henry David Thoreau

The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

Stephen Harper

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Nigel Lawson

And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have before.

Chris Christie

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lewis H. Lapham

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Honore de Balzac

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Henry David Thoreau

New York State is upside down and backwards high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

Andrew Cuomo

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

John Maynard Keynes

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

Ronald Reagan