Quotes About Government

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.

The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

A situation where a solution to a stakeholder problem is imposed by a government agency or the courts must be seen as a managerial failure.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

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

Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.

It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

Do you know that there's hardly anyone left of last year's Caucasian governments? I've tried to stop it, but in vain. Yet they can't all be Trotskyites and traitors.

If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.