Quotes About Government

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.

Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

In Waziristan people get really upset when there are no drone attacks. Their apprehension is that the US and Pakistani government might enter in an agreement to halt the attacks.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some

God is in charge, and alone sits as the ultimate government over His creation. All other governments are then to reflect His ultimate rule.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.

Democracy is the worst kind of government, I'm sorry. Would you still call yourself a Christian if they elected a new Jesus every four years?

When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.

We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure way of robbing us of our private property rights and other rights along with them.

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.

As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.

When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.

Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed.

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and this without any qualification as to their condition or degree, as is the case in the British government.