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Quotes About Government

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.
~ Eartha Kitt
In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.
~ Joe Baca
It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.
~ Jean-Baptiste Say
There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.
~ Davy Crockett
Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.
~ James Jesus Angleton
The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
~ Walter Bagehot
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
~ Nigel Farage
I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.
~ Steve Israel
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
~ H.L. Mencken
NRA - Nuts Running America.
~ Huey Long
you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
~ Dalton Trumbo
Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.
~ Jack Kemp
Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.
~ Anna Lindh
We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.
~ Ramsey Clark
Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.
~ Paul Ryan
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.
~ Richard Henry Lee
It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.
~ Wendell Berry
Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
~ Barbara Mikulski
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
~ Thomas Jefferson
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.
~ Franklin Pierce
Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.
~ Ezra Stiles
Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.
~ Tom Udall