Quotes About Government

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government.

When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.

The government is worst which governs most.

Let one state in the U.S. be free of government and overnight you would have an economic powerhouse.

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.

For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself.

When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.

No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.

Liberals measure compassion by counting the number of people receiving government help.

Government is not competent enough to regulate.

It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.

I don't like the term "universal bank." The Chinese government legitimately wants to have a very strong economy. When they talk about SOE reform, they know that's part of it.

THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.