Government Quotes

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

Barbara Bush

Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.

Thomas Frank

And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.

Mitt Romney

I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.

Andy Rooney

One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.

Scott Walker

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Ronald Reagan

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

Leland Stanford

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

Andrew Jackson

The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of them, it must be manifest, are of dubious wisdom and even more dubious honesty. Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle

H. L. Mencken, The Library

People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.

Friedrich Engels

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Otto von Bismarck

The law is sic a ass - a idiot.

Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Davy Crockett

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Harold Wilson

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Victor Cousin

Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

Maury Amsterdam

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Will Rogers