Quotes About Government

[I]f you want instant, reflexive support for the US government's police and military powers, MSNBC is the place to turn these days.

The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.

Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.

Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!

Think well of yourself and others will too. Unless those others are in government, banking, or show business.

It's that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government.

They can change every name in South Africa, but it won't change the fact that the government has failed to provide services or curb crime

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!

The Government will not abandon the free conversion of the rouble

Government is not peaceful; it is inherently coercive.

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

The government usually announces it killed a Big Terrorist 5 or 6 different times before they're dead - they're almost like cats.

It would be quite wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for the activities of American Communists.

No government can continue good, but under the control of the people.

The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.

Leaks are good. There is too much secrecy in our government. Sometimes the government knows about a problem and it takes a leak to embarrass the bureaucracy and get them to do something about it.

The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.

The Senate is indeed a deliberative body, and that quality serves the nation well. A slow-moving government helps us maintain a stable government. But slow moving is not the same as immobile.

Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.

Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.

The demand of our people in 1980 is not for smaller government or bigger government but for better government.