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Quotes About Government

And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.
~ Marco Rubio
One of the pleas you get when you're talking to the tourist industry or the energy industry or the whoever is, 'Please, can we just have the same minister for longer than five minutes?'
~ David Cameron
You don't support politicians in their elections if whoever's seeking money only has a goal to stay in office or get in office. You have to pick the people who are going to do the best job.
~ Eli Broad
I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals and try to protect corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations.
~ Ziggy Marley
I don't want people instructing me what to do with my body; I don't want the government to tell me what I can do in my bedroom, with my body, or with whoever I choose to love.
~ Tyne Daly
Whoever wants Yesh Atid in the government has to vote for us - there's no other choice.
~ Isaac Herzog
It's important to remember that whatever the presidential candidates of either party say, they will have to interact with the United States Congress, particularly the Senate, when it comes to crafting policy... we play an important role. And I'm going to continue to play that role, whoever is president.
~ Tom Cotton
Whoever is running the country should not be in the pay of a foreign interest. The best way is to see tax returns.
~ Bill Foster
The secretary of defense makes recommendations, sometimes will make strong recommendations to the president of the United States. But the president, whoever it is at that time, decides, makes the call on whether or not to take that recommendation.
~ Lee Zeldin
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
~ Vladimir Lenin
A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.
~ Lysander Spooner
I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.
~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system - at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course.
~ Noam Chomsky
Macroeconomics is the analysis of the economy as a whole, an examination of overall supply and demand. At the broadest level, macroeconomists want to understand why some countries grow faster than others and which government policies can help growth.
~ Alex Berenson
What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
~ Barack Obama
Technological change is never an isolated phenomenon. This revolution takes place inside a complex ecosystem which comprises business, governmental and societal dimensions. To make a country fit for the new type of innovation-driven competition, the whole ecosystem has to be considered.
~ Klaus Schwab
I don't believe newspaper reporters can substitute for a district attorney, but a newspaper has a very valid investigative role. Newspaper reports on corruption in government, racketeering and organized crime conditions can be very helpful to your communities and the whole country.
~ Robert Kennedy
The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.
~ Pim Fortuyn
A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.
~ Herbert Hoover
Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
~ James K. Polk
I wholeheartedly support the aspirations of the Ukrainian people for a democratic, free and just society where the rule of law prevails without corruption or government violence directed against citizens.
~ Marcy Kaptur
I am opposed to the wholesale giving away of the public lands to railroad corporations and other like institutions; at the same time, I believe that the government can encourage, by gifts, great national enterprises which are for the common weal and are so placed that they cannot properly expect local support.
~ Ambrose Burnside