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Quotes About Government

Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects into their coursework.
~ Adam Cohen
Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.
~ Vince Cable
In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in the realm... has no share in the sovereignty.
~ Roger B. Taney
In order to continue in office, any government (not simply a 'democratic' government) must have the support of the majority of its subjects. This support, it must be noted, need not be active enthusiasm; it may well be passive resignation as if to an inevitable law of nature.
~ Murray Rothbard
I am interested in constitutional history, political history, the history of foreign affairs, but I think you can get at those subjects through the details of daily life.
~ Lucy Worsley
An America disarmed is an America in subjugation.
~ Tom Tancredo
I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic.
~ Alberto Fujimori
Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them.
~ Preston Brooks
In India, all public servants employed by the central or a state government or any other public authority under their control are required under the relevant civil service rules to submit returns of movable and immovable assets owned by them and their immediate family.
~ Prashant Bhushan
I would submit a balanced budget if elected president, and it would be painful.
~ Virgil Goode
The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.
~ Wayne Rogers
I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.
~ Gerrit Smith
What we did was make it easier for people to subscribe to and expand Obamacare.
~ Joe Garcia
A new procurement policy had to be brought in 2016. Subsequent to it, procurement has gone up rapidly.
~ Nirmala Sitharaman
The government only gives subsidies for nitrogenous fertilisers. With the result, farmers do not apply balanced fertilisers.
~ M. S. Swaminathan
From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
~ Charles Koch
These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost.
~ Norm Dicks
Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy.
~ Jeff Goodell
None of the people who wrote Obamacare want anything to do with it. None of the people responsible for Obamacare can afford it. They all want subsidies. None of the people that gave us Obamacare have any desire to actually go to HealthCare.gov and sign up. That's for you and me to have to do.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Eventually, the economy will work well when you reduce subsidies. People have got used to getting some handouts from governments.
~ Subhash Chandra
The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget.
~ Elizabeth Warren
The whole tax code should be looked at, all the way from farm subsidies to carried interest to - to corporate loopholes, because we really need to raise more revenue.
~ Stephen Pagliuca