Quotes About Government

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

I will set a target for the reduction of (government) employees ... I will implement the reduction of the total personnel costs of the employees.

The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals.

It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary.

Americans in all places and levels of government have begun to consider the areas where we need to prepare ourselves from future threats, including the latest weapon: bio-terror.

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

The government shouldn't run anything, because it cannot run anything.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny

There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community.

The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

Government cannot kill the liberty to think. The idea, the thought, lives forever.

As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy

If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the money required to save it.

We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees.

My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.

In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production

I want to convey a message to the Sri Lankan government that they should seriously consider sending Sri Lankan Cricket Team to Pakistan.