Quotes About Government

All the stuff that makes life worth living is produced privately, and all that the government does is slow down the progress of civilization and bring destruction and disaster wherever it goes.

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

I cannot for the life of me understand what the Minister Of Transport does every day. He goes to the office at 9am and leaves at 5pm and the traffic in London is still horrendous.

I want to be president mainly for what I don't want to do: I don't want to run your life, I don't want to run the economy, and I don't want to police the world.

It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll see on this earth.

Politics is how you think about life itself.

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

Nothing in life is guaranteed, including government guarantees.

'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.

What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives.

Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

We know the legislation that passed the House. It was the worst piece of legislation frankly against working class people that I can remember in my political life in the Congress.

Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.

It's not up to the government to regulate everybody's life and lifestyle.

Secret Services are everywhere. They are part of out daily life. We just don't really care. We are not concerned at all.