Government Quotes

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Barbara Tuchman

We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

Paul Ryan

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

Will Rogers

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Gerald R. Ford

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

Ron Paul

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.

Harry Browne

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

Doris Lessing

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

Dennis Prager

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Ronald Reagan

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

William Ewart Gladstone

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

Thomas Jefferson

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

Rick Perry

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

Orson Scott Card

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

Stephen Harper

Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.

Carly Fiorina

Everything government touches turns to crap.

Ringo Starr

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

Geronimo

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

Ralph Nader

I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.

Vince Cable

Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

LaoTzu