Quotes About Government

If our governments are so compromised that they will not tell us the truth, then we must step forward to grasp it.

The people of New Jersey stepped up. They shared in the sacrifice. You know what else they did? They rewarded politicians who lead instead of politicians who pandered.

Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.

I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.

Every single country that has an auto industry is stepping forward to help that auto industry. Why wouldn't we help this industry too, because it needs 3.5 million jobs.

There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.

The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security.

A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.

Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1,000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right.

The government can take smart steps to give all kids the healthy start they need to reach their full potential.

We've got to take some drastic steps in this country. We can't keep spending and spending.

Government should take necessary steps to add music into school syllabus and impart knowledge to the students.

To enhance ease of doing business, the government has taken multiple steps to simplify procedures, rationalise rules, and increased use of technology.

As an economist, the only advice I can give the Modi government is to take some steps that will raise the morale of the consumer and investor. That means income tax abolition and reducing the annual interest rate to nine per cent.

The president can take steps to make sure the American public knows what its Justice Department and FBI have been up to.

The Congress-led UPA government is not releasing development funds and criticizing my government for not taking adequate steps for development. This shows that Congress is only playing politics for electoral gains and is not serious about development of the state.

The second driver of the current Orwell boom is the post-9/11 rise of the intelligence state.

Jefferson was notably ambivalent about the French philosopher. "In the science of government Montesquieu's spirit of laws is generally recommended. It contains indeed a great number of political truths; but almost an equal number of political heresies: so that the reader must be constantly on his guard.

On December 13, 1931, a fifty-seven-year-old English politician, still a member of Parliament but quite unwelcome in his own party's government, stepped out of a taxi on New York's Fifth Avenue.

So, he continued, if the government controls the established church, then the church ultimately must answer to the people. Thus, he concludes, the people "have the power to governe the Church, to see her do her duty, & to correct her, to redress, reform, establish, & c.

No longer does it make sense for an inventor to ask himself, "Can I make a better mousetrap?" because the threat is greater that the government might ban his mousetrap, however safe and efficient it is.

No one forces you to buy a Twinkie. But governments do force you to fight in their wars and pay for their bailouts.

The greatest gains against poverty in the United States occurred when government was least involved.

The State then uses this monopoly to wield power over the inhabitants of the area and to enjoy the material fruits of that power.