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Quotes About Government

The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law.
~ Rousas John Rushdoony
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
~ Dean William R. Inge
No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.
~ J. K. Galbraith
A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.
~ Jim Leach
When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.
~ Rick Santelli
The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.
~ Andrew Ross Sorkin
As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly.
~ Jo Ann Davis
Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.
~ Rick Santorum
Christian conservatives care about their families eating. They're concerned about energy independence. They're concerned about functional government.
~ Mike Huckabee
I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.
~ Jesse Ventura
You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.
~ Marco Rubio
In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.
~ Bruce Beresford
I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.
~ Ron Paul
Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.
~ John Leo
Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.
~ Eliot Spitzer
My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.
~ Jesse Ventura
Let me say this: I'm paranoid of the government. They've lost my trust. They've lied to me so many times that I don't know what to believe from them anymore.
~ Jesse Ventura
I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.
~ Jay Kay
Good government is good politics.
~ Richard J. Daley
I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.
~ John Rowland
Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.
~ Terry Pratchett
Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.
~ Bill Dedman
I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.
~ Tony Campolo
It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes.
~ Robert H. Jackson