Quotes About Government

Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.

Accepting a government grant with its accompanying rules is like marrying a girl and finding out her entire family is moving in with you before the honeymoon.

It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.

I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.

Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith or not.

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves.

We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.

The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.