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Quotes About Government

Our national debt poses a threat to all Americans and is particularly troublesome both for well-established businesses and for those seeking to enter into the marketplace.
~ Alan Patricof
I have no truck with the faintly conspiratorial argument that international governments are gleeful about a public-health emergency to enact authoritarian measures.
~ Claire Fox
True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.
~ Marquis de Lafayette
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
~ Edmund Burke
True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.
~ Herbert Hoover
Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.
~ James K. Polk
The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.
~ Mike Johanns
For many decades, Whitehall has deceived itself and deceived the public about the true nature of the E.U. project.
~ Dominic Cummings
Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it; it is given life only through the national mind, that is to say, by political faith, which is a creed.
~ Joseph de Maistre
There was a docudrama that was made, called 'The Death Of A Princess,' which was about a true story in Saudi Arabia. It was about a public execution for adultery. And when the movie was aired on British television, the Saudi government threatened to cut off oil exports and to cut off diplomatic relations.
~ Evan Osnos
Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.
~ Dorothea Dix
The truest statesmanship to which any feeble mortal can ever aspire is the sincere effort to apply the Savior's principles to human government.
~ Trent Franks
One truism of federal budgeting is that growing deficits force difficult spending decisions, and when they do, programs to help the poor are usually first on the chopping block.
~ Brian Deese
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
~ Elia Kazan
It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people.
~ John Pilger
We are building a truly integrated, efficient, and modern transit network across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Commuters deserve nothing less than the full support of our next federal government.
~ Caroline Mulroney
So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.
~ Carol Moseley Braun
Our party and the Republic's government will go hand in hand with anyone who truly desires the country's reunification and the nation's peaceful prosperity and will make responsible and patient efforts to accomplish the historic cause of the fatherland's reunification.
~ Kim Jong-un
Is it average Joes like ourselves who go to the ballot box and truly decide who are going to be the leaders, not only of their party - of their government - at the local, at the state, at the federal level? Is that really who's still in charge?
~ Matt Bevin
Problems in our country haven't been caused by Donald Trump, America and its ambitions or CIA spies. Our problems are rooted in a bad government system, the lack of free elections, independent courts and freedom of speech.
~ Ksenia Sobchak
Barack Obama was a good president, and hopefully, Donald Trump is a good president.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Donald Trump is at his very best, at his very best, when he talks about the issues.
~ Kellyanne Conway
I believe Donald Trump is a bona fide authoritarian. I am deeply concerned that if he were president of the United States, he would act accordingly.
~ Evan McMullin
Donald Trump is anathema to America.
~ Tom Perez