Quotes About Government

It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That's real leadership.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

The women of the United States are nothing but brood sows, having sons to be put into the army and made into fertilizer.

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?

I think it's a scary thing for a lot of people to think of the government not being involved in their lives, particularly single women.

Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights.

The story of the eighties will be the story of the Reagan administration and the many men and women who served in it, some of whom are already out on parole.

Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads.

The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on AFDC, will now grow to a clear majority of the U.S. population.

I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

The government has no business in the decisions that women make with their families in accordance with their faith, with medical advice. And I will stand up for that right.

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women.

When I was at university, the policemen used to measure how short the women's mini-skirts were and how long guys' hair was. We were living under a government that considers people to be soldiers.

I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

The more women we elect to public office, the more wholesome the whole process will be, whether it's government, politics, whatever.

The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.

In a free society men and women should not be prevented by Government from seeking medical remedies which they believe will be effective.

It's hard to argue with the government. Remember, they are they run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, so they must know a thing or two about satisfying women.

I think you should live your moral values, but the last thing, the very last thing, the government should do is have laws that would punish women who make reproductive choices.

I would like to see the Iraqi government guarantee social insurance for the Yazidi women who were enslaved and to recognise their status as prisoners of war.