Quotes About Government

Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the least government interference with the market - contrary to rhetoric.

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

I have said explicitly from day one when I announced this policy in, I believe, November of 2011, that I and our government oppose the idea of banning the wearing of the niqab in public.

You know what I like about the American form of government? They've worked things out so that you're never far from a 7-Eleven.

Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?

I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

Atheistic secular humanists should be removed from office and Christians should be elected...Government and true Christianity are inseparable.

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.

To bring about a genuine political realignment, Republicans must kill the Government Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs - the very Goose they have fought so hard and long to possess.

I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.

Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.

Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing.

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.

There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.