Quotes About Government

If you've got a brand new administration coming into office you want to have, at the very least, a national security team in place on day one.

President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial.

If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the peoples desperate need for change.

I have come from outside Delhi, but I give you an assurance that the people in the Government are very capable. I want to awaken and unite that power for the welfare of nation.

You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections.

The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

America has to stand up and decide if we want to be a socialist nation or if we're going to be a free nation.

This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans.

In Quebec, we can no longer increase taxes if we want to stay competitive.

I am against resources being controlled by corporations, but that doesn't mean I want them controlled by the state.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom.