Quotes About Government

Creon: My voice is the one voice giving orders in this city! Haimon: It is no city if it takes orders from one voice. Creon: The State is the King! Haimon: Yes, if the State is a desert.

The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

If you've been frugal during your life and tried to save, you're penalised by the tax system. You pay tax on your wages, your savings and even your private pension.

It is the government's strong desire to empower this fabric, this social fabric of our society where faith-based programs large and small feel empowered, encouraged, and welcomed into changing lives.

Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared.

The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.

A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.

The president should not be able to make me or you ever worried about what's going to happen in our personal life.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.

Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.

If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.

Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.

Let's draw the boundary early not wait until it's obvious like Hitler's Germany and insist that the state shall never, never, take the life of a person!

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.

From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way of government and a way of life.

I believe that, as Americans, our freedoms come from God and not government, and include the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.

The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.

Some of the most corrupt people that you will meet in life are working in corporate government law enforcement. They make criminals look like amateurs.

People who know God truly change the life of their nation, and not the government

Public-sector employment — another way to be shielded from reality.