Government Quotes

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Thurgood Marshall

We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.

Evan Davis

Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.

Chris Christie

The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

Marquis de Sade

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

James Madison

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.

Martin Feldstein

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

Dwight Whitney Morrow

Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.

Marco Rubio

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

Ron Paul

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

William Weld

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

John W. Gardner

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain

We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.

Kurt Vonnegut

The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away

John S. Caldwell

In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.

Lucy Powell

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality

Mahatma Gandhi

Corporations often partner with government after natural disasters, as many companies did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As a rule, however, long-term civic/corporate partnerships are still rare .But this need not remain the status quo, as many opportunities are available for such partnerships.

Simon Mainwaring

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way

Henry David Thoreau

We are not occupying Afghanistan, we are there as guests of a government, at their request.

Christopher Hitchens

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

Chris Christie