Government Quotes

In parliament he again pressed the necessity of reducing expenditure. Friends warned him that he was flogging a dead horse.

John Morley

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Ronald Reagan

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.

Andrew Cuomo

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are -- 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

Marco Rubio

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Leo Tolstoy

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.

Richard Crossman

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

Milton Friedman

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.

Thomas Jefferson

Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens.

John Mica

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

Zachary Quinto

My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.

Aung San Suu Kyi

So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.

Monica Lewinsky

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Herbert Spencer

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

Jesse Ventura

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

Wendell Willkie

Americans no longer look to government for economic security rather, they look to their portfolios.

Bill Owens