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Quotes About Government

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.
~ Fritz Sauckel
I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.
~ Teri Garr
It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.
~ John Amery
Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.
~ Marco Rubio
The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.
~ Benazir Bhutto
The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.
~ William Scranton
I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.
~ Aisha Tyler
The greatest of all evils is a weak government
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.
~ Lindsey Graham
There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.
~ Milton Friedman
We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.
~ Paul Ryan
People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.
~ Hannah Arendt
The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.
~ Jane Byrne
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.
~ Jon Postel
Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.
~ L. Neil Smith
Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?
~ Beatrice Webb
We should never forget the government should be held accountable for providing services.
~ Margaret Chan
We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.
~ Bob Ehrlich
I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to step in and set guidelines for how shows should be rated.
~ Drew Carey
Our enemies are a radical network of terrorists - and every government that supports them.
~ George W. Bush
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
~ Ezra Stiles
A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.
~ James Surowiecki