Quotes About Government

I always thought Stanford was a good guy, starting the university and such. Instead, you're saying he was stealing from the government.

Americans would not mind higher taxes if they were wrapped in bacon

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.

All government, without exception, conceal from the people everything that might further their emancipation, and encourage all that degrades and demoralizes them: all manner of amusements of the senses, even physical means of stupefaction, such as tabacco and alcohol.

Of course now I realise I was wrong to take what the Irish books said at face value anyway; the Irish would deliberately paint a black picture of the English and indeed the English government would encourage that, and vice versa; anything to emphasise the difference between the two nations' identities, even if in geopolitical terms they are firm allies.

Its President was Warren Hastings, who ruled with a rod of iron in one hand and a blank cheque from London in the other.[

I am not a partisan newsman. I am a reporter who covers politics and government, and I am nonpartisan.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice.

We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I'd rather feed them better food.

So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat ' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK.

Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

My dad occupied a government position, deputy collector, in a city called Nainital, so we had access to the cinemas at any time. I saw my first movies when I was very young.

When individuals become angry with one another, an injury of some sort will likely occur. When governments become angry, entire civilisations are wiped out.

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.

There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.

The benefits that were offered to me as a congressman don't even compare to the benefits that you get as a state employee.

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.