Quotes About Government

How can you have the religion of the sovereign be the religion of the state if the sovereign belongs to many religions? And it's at that point, I think, historically, that you start to see people saying maybe the state should not associate itself with any religion. Maybe there shouldn't be any official religion.

The federal government should not be able to hide behind sovereign immunity when the facts don't meet the protections.

What is very negative is that in every country in Europe, the largest owner of that country's sovereign bonds are that country's banks.

A parliamentary democracy that has developed its delicate balances over hundreds of years will not give up its sovereign rights.

I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.

The core idea that underlies all of our democratic states, the core political idea, is this idea that it's not that one person is the sovereign; it's that all of the people are sovereign.

Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. Liberty is not provided by government; liberty preexists government. It's our natural birthright, not a gift from the sovereign. Our founders upended things and divided power to enshrine a promise, not a process.

There is an interesting parallel between the 'Argo' story and '13 Hours' in that, around the world, we have 285 or so diplomatic outposts and the expectation that the local government will come to our aid if we ever come under attack on the sovereign property of the United States in an embassy.

Parliament alone is sovereign.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

I care about national sovereignty of America.

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.

Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.

I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.

With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

Money is one of the elements of sovereignty.

Sovereignty is as necessary as ever.

For an American, as mad you may be about whatever the EPA or the IRS does, just imagine if you only had a one twenty-eighth vote over what it does. You were in this place with this big bureaucracy that sets rules, and you only have a small vote. You'd feel like you've given up your sovereignty, wouldn't you?

If the court case I brought against the government over article 50 was about anything at all, it was about parliamentary sovereignty.

Brexit was, at its heart, about democracy and sovereignty.

If you attack our democratically elected representatives, you attack our institutions, all our people and our sovereignty, and we will never allow that.

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.