Quotes About Government

I had a 20-year, stellar government career.

South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen.

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.

Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.

So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.

No Taxes. Let's just tip the government 15% if they do a good job.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.

In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult.