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Quotes About Government

They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.
~ Edward Snowden
It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Democracy is the most vile form of government.
~ James Madison
I have confidence that the government of Luxembourg will not make any decision that frustrates this transaction.
~ Lakshmi Mittal
I think it's important to remember that the court itself, the federal government itself belongs to the American people.
~ Mike Pence
For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature.
~ Jason Kenney
This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.
~ Paul Robeson
The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.
~ John Sununu
Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.
~ WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness.
~ Lucas Papademos
no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top.
~ Jennifer Pahlka
New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known.
~ Liam Fox
As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.
~ Elton Gallegly
May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
~ Thomas Jefferson
We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.
~ Paul Krugman
It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people.
~ L. Brent Bozell, Jr.
Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.
~ John Robert Colombo
This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.
~ Richard Cobden
What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.
~ Peter Schiff
Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.
~ Edward Snowden
The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.
~ Jerry Brown
'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
~ John Locke
I don't know if you have a child, but what the Chinese government want people to see is like you would want a child to see. Because every film shown in China is one that a child could see.
~ Tang Wei