Quotes About Government

When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.

Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.

What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires.

We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.

Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal will be about socializing...uh, um...Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies.

I would rather have a country run like hell by Filipinos than a country run like heaven by the Americans, because however a bad Filipino government might be, we can always change it.

The government does a lot of stuff that it shouldn't do - the Department of Education, for instance.

People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it.

The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams.

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.

The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.