Quotes About Government

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.

The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust.

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

The business of government is justice.

Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions

Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

Whenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what their motives are.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

They think democracy - I used to say "damn the democracy", because it's not a stable government.