Quotes About Government

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.

There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.

It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.

...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers.

There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect.

Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children and other civilians for purposes of mere terrorism.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

The details of what the Fed did were kept secret until a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that I sponsored required the Government Accountability Office to audit the Fed's lending programs during the financial crisis.

When I was young, there was only one TV channel, sponsored by the government, and it only broadcast things like what the leader had for breakfast. There was no real media.

One of the best programs that the federal government sponsors is the Small Business Innovation Research program, in which more than 2.5 percent of federal research and development funding at the largest agencies goes directly to small businesses.