Quotes About Government

Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.

If you log onto this (Cars.gov) at your home, everything in your home is now theirs.

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.

White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.

We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

The highest honor in the church is not government but service.

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

No polity can be devised which shall perpetuate freedom among a people that are dead to honor and integrity. Liberty and virtue are twin sisters, and the best fabric in the world . . . .

If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

Honor is unknown in despotic states.

Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!