Quotes About Government

The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. . . . The examples of government misusing religion are endless.

Once the government runs out of foreign and private sector bidders for new Treasurys, the Federal Reserve will be the only buyer, and the hyper-inflation cat will be completely out of the bag.

Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies.

Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.

Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.

The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule.

The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment.

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.

The British government is a murder machine.

Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.

I have hired a bodyguard, on the recommendation of my friends and the government. It's outrageous, having to live like this.

If you want to make the government take a religious side, then make the case, it should be Christian republic.

Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government makes you think that it all comes from them.

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.

I think most Americans are against illegal surveillance of their emails and telephone calls by the government.

We [the U.S.] think nothing... of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.

Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.

I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.