Quotes About Government

Our strategy should be based on indigenisation and import substitution. The government must provide opportunities for domestic companies to participate in sectors in which the country continues to depend on imports.

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

The very fact Boris Johnson is the favourite to succeed May says everything about how vacuous and morally bankrupt our politics has become.

We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.

Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it.

Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.

I think, if you create the right economic framework in terms of government policy, that Saskatchewan can continue to succeed and grow. Instead of having people migrate from Saskatchewan, they will be migrating to Saskatchewan.

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

You know it's funny when it rains it pours. They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

Consider a simple comparison: The American government spends more on Americans' health care (per capita) than the French government spends on their entire health care system (again in per capita terms). It is a fair criticism that some individuals are left out of this coverage, or perhaps too much is sent to doctors and hospitals, but using some very plausible metrics, the American government is more involved in health care than is the French government.

Most of what we spend on education is dominated by government. So unlike the expenditures on apples, our educational spending is not facing a strong market test.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond has estimated that 61 percent of all private-sector financial liabilities are guaranteed by the federal government, either explicitly or implicitly. As recently as 1999, this figure was below 50 percent.

Political policy is like a wild animal; it cannot be perfectly perceived, only appropriately considered.

Las Nuevas Leyes de 1542, sobre el gobierno de las colonias españolas

The framers of our Constitution firmly believed that a republican government could not endure without intelligence and education generally diffused among the people. The Father of his Country, in his Farewell Address, uses this language: Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.

And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.

By issuing our own money we can eliminate all income taxes and employment taxes and the national debt would cease to exist.

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.

Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.

Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.

One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

We did not join this government to establish a Palestinian state, but to stop this terrible idea - our position is clear to the prime minister and we believe that it is his position as well. We are reminding him that there are domestic coalition agreements that take priority over international pressure. We are opposed to the two-state solution. We believe it is not a solution – it is the start of a problem and it makes existing problems worse.