Quotes About Government

The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.

What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.

Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives.

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

The reason families need two incomes today is not to support themselves but to support the government.

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.

Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.

The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness.

We must never violate principles. We must never initiate violence. And we should never harm the innocent. But at some point, unless governments back off, we have to stop being nice.

Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.

The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the Kurdish people.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.