Quotes About Government

There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need.

People's position on immigration, once they get "sophisticated," and they rise to the higher levels of commentary or government, it's usually determined solely by economics. And not by anything else.

If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.

Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do.

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.

Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.

Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.

The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

Individual believers are not to usurp the role of civil government and judge people who are offensive.

We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow.

I left the government because I saw the only way to get family planning moving, was to do it outside the government. I was never disillusioned with government.

The more independent mind you have the more your government will hate you! It is an honour for you to be hated this way!

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.