Quotes About Government

Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.

I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life.

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that we have a choice between cutting tax and cutting unemployment, for the two go hand in hand.

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics.

At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

On Capitol Hill, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales raised his right hand, swore to tell the truth, and then everybody had a good laugh and went back to what they were doing.

If you are going to stick to the truth then you need to keep your distance from the Chinese government and indeed to any form of politics, including the politics of democratic countries.

There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

Every Republican is on record as saying Obamacare is unacceptable, intolerable, and they're gonna do everything they could to keep it from happening. But, at the moment of truth, they're not.

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.

Of course, no government official will ever tell you that the cities may be making the people in them ill.

He(Prophet Muhammad) laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.

Socialism is the way, the truth, and the light.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among Democrats.

When they have something to hide, they put it in the F.O.I. cabinet.

More than half of the Danish adult population—as much as two-thirds, according to some estimates—either works in the public sector or is financially supported by it in the form of benefit payments. The idea, then, of the Danes voting for a reduction in the size of the public sector funded by tax cuts seems about as likely as the turkeys voting for Thanksgiving. The majority will always vote for the status quo because their livelihood depends on it.