Quotes About Government

America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.

You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

Whatever the needs of the public are, the government responds to those needs by getting larger.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times.

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.

Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!

Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.