Quotes About Government

Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.

Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.

I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices.

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.

Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.

The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.

Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that.

The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.

If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you probably deserve to become extinct.

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group they feel threatened by.

A good government is one with a duty to help everyone, to maximise his or her potential: Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and our forgotten families.We will not leave anyone behind.

I have to thank the people, Congress and Government of the United States, for my liberation from captivity.

His [Donald Trump] name is on everything. He is a celebrity. But he is not a governor. He has never run government. He is a business executive.

The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.

I don't think any Australian will ever forget, there will never be a Carbon Tax under a government I lead.

I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

For me, liberals are people who seek to use government to promote the general welfare.

Compassion comes from the heart, not the government.