Quotes About Government

The government has investigated our program of collecting through a generalized fashion, everyone's phone records in the country. And they found that no terrorist case has been thwarted through this.

Right now there's kind of a generational change. Young Americans do not trust this government. Without trusting government you can't do a lot of things.

I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.

In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of jihad.

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.

I wrote Pay Any Price as my answer to the government's campaign against me.

Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest star, and the usual cast.

The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government.

Government-run schools can't instill morals and character.

The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis.

A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.

Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.

National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.

Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

The Syrian government is weak today in 2017, but it's been gathering strength. And I think it's likely that, in the next few years, you will see the Syrian government retake much of Syria.

When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.

Despite Russia's move to raise interest rates this week, the value of the ruble has continued to crash. Russia's economy is so bad, Edward Snowden had to put government secrets on Craigslist.

We're a very religious country; the government's secular.

The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.

There's an old saying that the government is your partner from birth, but they don't get to come to all the meetings.

As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.