Quotes About Government

Less government in business and more business in government.

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

India is a continent and should be divided into separate nations. There is no need for a single government.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

I'm going to fight for every person in America who believes government should serve the people, not the donors and not the special interests.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government... Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people...

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.

Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own.