Quotes About Government

If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we have to pay for sweeping a woman off hers.

It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.

If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.

On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.

This we learn from Watergate that almost any creep'll be glad to help the Government overthrow the people.

Let's ask why it is that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and your medicine can be doubled tomorrow, and there's nothing that the government can do to stop it.

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.

Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

The bigger the government, the greater the corruption

A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.

Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.

There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.