Quotes About Government

If experience has taught me anything, its not to put ANYTHING past people in government.

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.

For me all governments are my enemies and I've never made any bones about it any other way other than directly, and I don't fly the left flag or the right flag, me, I'm common sense.

[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

What we are seeing is there is a lot of anger out there about the failure of the government to resolve the immigration crisis.

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.

Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.

Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is not the size of the deficit, it's the size of government's claim on our economy.

If governments do not ensure that, the peoples through their own efforts will ensure these changes, what we call communitarian socialism.

If government goes beyond securing liberty and instead violates it through regulation, redistribution, and planning, then citizens are victims of legal plunder.

However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.

A default of the US government would not only be very harmful here, it would probably send the country back into deep recession, but it just might crash the international financial system.

Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

Republicans don't believe government works, and get into it to prove it will fail. Same with strippers and relationships.

I am asking all Americans, Republicans, Independents and Democrats, to join us in our campaign to defeat the corrupt establishment and give our government back to the people. It's going to happen.

In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.

Governments have a favorite phrase: "lean and mean." But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.