Quotes About Government

In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.

Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

When politicians don black robes and seize powers they do not have, they should be called out for what they are - usurpers and petty tyrants.

The only way to tyrantproof the presidency is not to elect tyrants to the presidency.

We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.

Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy.

On April 27th 2017 the UK approved Magnitsky Sanctions as part of the Criminal Finances Bill. The provision gives the British government the power to seize assets of gross human rights violators.

One of the challenges with a government health system, like in the UK, with all of this data, is that you have a government making decisions on which treatments they'll pay for and which ones they won't. That's a dangerous, dangerous, place to get into society.

There is a pattern whereby even if you can't map out the exact policies and issues that might be dangerous for you as an individual... we've seen this before. And you don't have to join all the dots to see it ends badly. There shouldn't be that kind of fear from any community in the UK about a future government.

Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business.

The UK downgrade will come as little surprise to many. It does not appear to be occurring because the UK is cutting its deficit too far and too fast.

In the UK we have general elections roughly every four or five years because we know circumstances, situations and therefore opinions change over time.

There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.

The Donetsk People's Republic is the self-declared pro-Russian government that wants to break away from Ukraine.

If you think that a coup to overthrow the elected government is a coup everywhere, then you should remember how elections in Ukraine took place in 2004, how elections in Georgia took place in 2003, when the elections results have been torn and thrown away by revolutionary action.