Quotes About Government

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.

We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang.

In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.

The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history.

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.

The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.

In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.

I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.

If heads of states fail to seize the opportunity of our entry into the third millennium to provide for a better government of planet Earth, history will not forgive them - if there is a history.

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.

If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.

History has shown us that 'Get Things Done' is mindless liberal code for passing ineffective legislation and expanding government for government's sake.

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

Cut, Cap and Balance is worst legislation in history.