Quotes About Government

If you ever want to incite a riot north of New York City, mention raising taxes and see what happens.

Handing out free food and clothes was a charitable act. Approaching the powers was a political act.

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

We can hardly pride ourselves on being the world's preeminent democracy, after all, if the large numbers of citizens spend half their waking hours in what amounts, in plain terms, to a dictatorship.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

In government we have leaders who are perceived by and large as unable to do what they are supposed to do, to lead. In business we have leaders who are perceived by and large as able to do what they are supposed to do, to lead, but who nevertheless do so in ways that disappoint and dishearten.

In the early stages of a pregnancy, the Government cannot intervene with a woman's right to choose. That is it, plain and simple. Guess what. We are not going to be big brother or sister, as the case may be. We are going to allow a woman, her doctor, and her God to make that decision.

I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'.

I hope every woman in this country, whether they agree with Roe or they disagree with Roe, whether they themselves would make one decision or another, will come together and say: Pro-choice means that the Government respects the individual, and isn't that really what our country is all about?

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.

Political balance among the competing groups was unstable because the king had no permanent armed force at his command.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard and fast and specific decision.

Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

In the woe of the century no factor caused more trouble than the persistent lag between the growth of the state and the means of state financing. While centralized government was developing, taxation was still encased in the concept that taxes represented an emergency measure requiring consent.

Inevitably, as hatred of monarchy was added to hatred of episcopacy, they were led to republicanism.

It is a feature of government that the more important the problem, the further it tends to be removed from handling by anyone well acquainted with the subject.

To the two men it seemed that the government and capital of France were left without means of defense and unable to command any. Only one resource was left - Gallieni.

the majority of Russians are materially better off than before, the cost in cruelty and tyranny has been no less and probably greater than under the czars. The French Revolution, great prototype of populist government, reverted rapidly to

government, in the words of one of the group, J. K. Galbraith, was rarely more than a choice between "the disastrous and the unpalatable.