logo

Quotes About Government

Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.
~ John Philip Sousa
Obama is from this group that resents the private sector, resents the capitalistic means of production.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Out of one pocket we pay billions of our tax dollars to support the production of expensive, disease-causing foods. Out of the other pocket, we pay medical bills that are too high because our overweight population consumes too much of these rich, disease-causing foods.
~ Joel Fuhrman
I think it's incumbent upon elected officials to make sure that, if we're going to demand more tax money from people, that we use it in a productive manner and not just say, 'This is what we're going to use it for,' and then they find out that it was used for something else and sometimes something very frivolous.
~ Kane
We're so overregulated as a country that we just crushed our productivity.
~ Stephen A. Schwarzman
Sharad Pawar has taught us how to raise farm productivity and also how to form a government with less number of MLAs in the legislative assembly.
~ Uddhav Thackeray
Our Constitution does not profess to have been established simply by the majority, but by 'the people' - the minority as much as the majority.
~ Lysander Spooner
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
I never thought of politics as a profession.
~ George Papandreou
I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.
~ Bella Abzug
In China, the government is involved in business in many different ways. They're involved in media and business. When you go to China, you have to rethink how you're doing everything. You have to become Chinese.
~ Travis Kalanick
Running a democratic country is one of the most difficult things for any government.
~ Mahathir Mohamad
There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties.
~ Lionel Murphy
We have given a government where people feel safe... we gave Dalits a life of dignity.
~ Mayawati
The spirit of cooperation between the Centre and states has been diluted in many ways.
~ Amarinder Singh
Let's diminish the impact and influence D.C. has on the decisions that we make here in Colorado.
~ George Brauchler
If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction.
~ Mitch McConnell
Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.
~ Wole Soyinka
If a company in Australia has to pay tax and the other one doesn't, of course it's a disadvantage.
~ Gerry Harvey
I've completely lost faith in the Democratic Party to truly serve the disadvantaged.
~ Bruce Rauner
It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.
~ Sheila Jackson Lee
There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.
~ Grover Norquist
In the United States, because we are a nation of laws, you can lose an election and keep your life. In the United States, you can lose an election where you can disagree with our leaders or our government, and you won't lose your business; you won't lose your family, and you won't lose your freedom.
~ Kelly Ayotte
It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
~ Brian Eno