Quotes About Government

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

If President Obama really wants to hurt the Syrian government, don't send cruise missiles. He should send over some of his economic advisers.

I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.

If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do, that area is the purchasing of gold.

This is government. There is no entertainment.

It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.

The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.

Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.

Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.

The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.

A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.

The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe

It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people.

I worked, studied, mothered and continued to be an activist. I found that Cuba was much different from the US; its government was genuinely trying to erase racism.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.