Quotes About People

Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.

The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government's policies, that are so hated.

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

Keep government out of the money of the people, schools of the people, and will of the people.

Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.

I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.

I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands.

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.

In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.

Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.

Relationships between governments are important, but relationships between people are the real foundation of mutual understanding.

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

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

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

Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives.