Quotes About Government

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power. That goes for the U.S.A as well as for Russia or any other country in the world.

Cattle grazing on public lands is heavily subsidized by the federal government, so yes, all of us taxpayers are helping to pay for tremendous environmental degradation.

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.

Jack was unexpectedly moved when he swore allegiance to the king and country. He had served both for years, could easily have laid down his life. Yet it was different to pledge his loyalty and best efforts toward governing this nation. Dying was easier than making good laws.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

The Kremlin was built (1300)—not as we see it now.

What is democracy, Lysis?"—"It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.

What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.

Yes, the money could be better spent on Earth. But would it? Since when has money saved by government redlining been spent on education and cancer research? It is always squandered. Let's squander some on Mars. Let's go out and play.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

When the government does the job of a parent, that's socialism.

I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.

When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work!" (Homer Simpson)

The American president is a motherfucker.

Because it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their budgets rather than the service of their customers; pressure groups form an unholy alliance with agencies to extract more money from taxpayers for their members. Yet despite all this, most clever people still call for government to run more things and assume that if it did so, it would somehow be more perfect, more selfless, next time.

It is strange to me that most people assume companies will be imperfect (as they are), but they assume that government agencies will be perfect, which they are not.

Though politicians are regarded as scum, government as a machine is held to be almost infallible.

Market failure is a favourite phrase; government failure is not.

intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When

Bill Clinton's political formula for seizing the presidency was simple. He made money tight in the ghettos and let it flow free on Wall Street. He showered the projects with cops and bean counters and pulled the cops off the beat in the financial services sector. And in one place he created vast new mountain ranges of paperwork, while in another, paperwork simply vanished.

There are people in the world worth laughing at. They're called politicians.