Quotes About Citizens

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

Governments are not representative.

We should never forget the government should be held accountable for providing services.

We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.

My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.

The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

Democracy is the most vile form of government.

'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.

People are frustrated. They're fed up. They don't think the government is working for them.

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.