Quotes About Government

Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

I don't want a lot of bureaucracy... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.

And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.

I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup against the country's democratic institutions.

This is a powerful message from our government: we will not be intimidated by bombs; we will not be intimidated by poison; this is America, if you're a violent, paranoid lunatic, you must use a gun!

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Government is an unnecessary evil.

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.

A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.

The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.

The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.