Quotes About Government

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

The rich and large corporations get richer, the CEOs earn huge compensation packages, and when things get bad, don't worry; Uncle Sam and the American taxpayers are here to bail you out. But when you are in trouble, well, we just can't afford to help you, if you are in the working class or middle class of this country.

The American people want to know that when they borrow a book from the library or buy a book, the government won't be looking over their shoulder. Everybody wants to fight terrorism, but we have to do it in away that protects American freedom.

The United States invests just 2.4 percent of GDP in infrastructure; whereas, Europe invests twice that amount.

Mark my words, there will be an intensive effort to privatize Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid.

During this first term [as Burlington mayor in 1981] I discovered that the city was wasting substantial sums of money on its insurance policies. Companies, year after year, were getting the city's business at substantially higher than market rates. I instituted a radical socialist concept, 'competitive' bidding, which saved the city tens of thousands of dollars.

It turned out that Republicans loved veterans very much, except when it came to funding their needs.

Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?

Das Volk hat das Vertrauen der Regierung verscherzt.Wäre es da nicht doch einfacher,die Regierung löste das Volk auf und wählte ein anderes?

The Solution After the uprising of the 17th of June The Secretary of the Writers Union Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee Stating that the people Had forfeited the confidence of the government And could win it back only By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier In that case for the government To dissolve the people And elect another?

LOS DE ARRIBA se han reunido en una sala. Hombre de la calle: abandona toda esperanza. Los gobiernos firman pactos de no agresión. Hombre pequeño: escribe tu testamento.

Nu ar fi mai simplu pentru guvern sa dizolve poporul si sa aleaga altul?

We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the most absolute of kings.

History is the register of the strife of authorities. Always and everywhere man takes possession of man to bend him to his will and adapt him to his designs; so that society is seen to be a galaxy of authorities which arise, grow, and fight each other.

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action

This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind

Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.

Indebtedness is the poor man's curse. Just so, it's a county's curse . . . or a state's . . . or a nation's.

Sometimes I think I was the official killer of bad bills. One I recollect at this minute was about exemptin' debtors from their just debts. The more I listened to 'em argue about lettin' people get out from under their legitimate obligations, the madder I got. If the day ever comes when you can legislate people out of their honest debts . . . well, I never want to live to see it. The country will be in a bad way, that's all I got to say for it.

The country's already got a two billion dollar debt. Say that over and see if you can sense it. Not millions . . . two billions. I doubt if the country'll ever take on a load like that again once it's settled.

Someone has to champion us if the government won't. During the Draft Riots back home, mobs attacked members of the race all over the city. They even burned down a Colored orphanage. Those who hate us have no shame, and if dragging them from their houses teaches them a lesson, I'm all for dragging them out every night until they learn.

the Fifteenth Amendment