Quotes About Government

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

Congress is a co-equal branch of government, with a long and rich history of standing up to the executive branch.

From an institution standpoint, I want the American people to understand that the Senate can function, even on the most serious things.

The president, it seems to me, stands out as the one person in our system who is in a unique position where the checks on any lack of integrity there are more important than for anyone else in the system of government.

America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.

The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.

Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

If the condition of Government stands still, it just makes no sense and must die, so, therefore, the improvement within that democracy must be the greater and greater equalization of rights and opportunities to the people as those people grow up.

Maher Arar's case stands as a sad example of how we have been too willing to sacrifice our core principles to overarching government power in the name of security, when doing so only undermines the principles we stand for and makes us less safe.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man

In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.

No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.

I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.

For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.