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Quotes About Government

American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.
~ Neil Kinnock
Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.
~ Nhat Hanh
States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power
~ Noam Chomsky
A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should have the rights of persons.
~ Noam Chomsky
The House of Representatives, which was closer to the population, had much less power. The executive was more or less an administrator, not an emperor like today.
~ Noam Chomsky
If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
~ P. Chidambaram
I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.
~ Peter Ustinov
Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.
~ Orrin Woodward
We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.
~ Rand Paul
If the government of this country tramples the faith and values of its citizens, history will hold those in power responsible for the violent convulsions that follow.
~ Randall Terry
We need to do whatever we can, legally and within our power, to remove Donald Trump from office as fast as possible before something serious happens in this country.
~ Reza Aslan
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
~ Robert Harris
For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.
~ Robert Payne
All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power.
~ Ron Paul
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have been offer'd to private subjects.
~ Samuel Adams
Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order." - John V. Lindsay "No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
~ Samuel Johnson
When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.
~ Thomas Jefferson
... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.
~ Thomas Paine
It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.
~ Thomas Paine
I think if you do term limits, you would really increase the power of lobbying.
~ Tim Kaine
I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives.
~ Tim Walberg
The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.
~ Tom Coburn
Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.
~ Winifred Holtby