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Quotes About Government

It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.
~ Dennis Hastert
Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.
~ Arabella Weir
However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.
~ Dorothy Denning
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
~ Andrew Jackson
Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
~ Hilaire Belloc
A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.
~ Jarvis Cocker
If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.
~ Fred Woodworth
I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible.
~ Maurice Strong
It is always necessary that we point out our flaws for the betterment of our country. If we do not, how can our conditions improve? But the atmosphere is such that if we criticize the government we are branded as anti-nationals.
~ Shabana Azmi
The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary.
~ Bobby Scott
The war against the Black Liberation movement by the FBI/U.S. government was most influential for me in seeing the necessity for armed self-defense.
~ Susan Rosenberg
I was very excited about a currency that was not controlled by a central government, that could be a free market currency. That was all the incentive I needed to dedicate my life to it.
~ Erik Voorhees
I don't want to live in a country where the elites like Hillary Clinton do not live under the same laws as the rest of us. She needs to be held to account.
~ Ron DeSantis
I'm not here today to tell you government doesn't have a role to play. It does, but it needs to be the right role.
~ Rob Portman
It's hard to ignore the hand that feeds you, and today our communities are far more needy than they've ever been, and governments neither have the will nor the ability in many cases to provide the services that they need to.
~ Kenneth Cole
The Conservative government's neglect of social housing is all too apparent and should be a source of national shame.
~ Layla Moran
America, in all its institutions, whether it be the family or government, has forgotten and neglected its children.
~ Janet Reno
We have neglected our aerospace program, and I am detecting a lot of bipartisan support to continue that mission.
~ Luther Strange
It's the job of the president to negotiate, but it's the job of Congress to approve.
~ Tom Cotton
A no deal Brexit would be a complete failure by the government to negotiate for Britain.
~ Keir Starmer
I think we live in a quite an immoral society with quite an amoral government and they're going to have to grow up in that and negotiate their own way in it.
~ Frankie Boyle
The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited.
~ David K. E. Bruce
My next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.
~ Gary Johnson