Quotes About Government

In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

I do not have much confidence in the political system and never did. My goal has always been to change people's minds because as long as people demand more government, they will get it.

The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.

Rest assured, the government is ready to support and enhance the competitiveness of the biotechnology industry.

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli governments responsibility.

My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.

If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed.

It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.

It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

The Government's business is in sound condition.

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.

Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.

I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.

The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City.

Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.

Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.