Government Quotes

In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.

Paul Ryan

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

Howard Zinn

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

Alan Shepard

Until such time as people reject the power of government to govern, to legislate, and to punish, war will never stop.

Leo Tolstoy

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

Tim Robbins

To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.

Sarah Palin

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

H. L. Mencken

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

Tony Campolo

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

Noah Webster

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

Woodrow Wilson

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Plato

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

James Madison

We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government.

Lucy Powell

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

Andrew Johnson

The government is us we are the government, you and I.

Theodore Roosevelt

Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.

Eliot Spitzer

I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

Thomas Jefferson