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Quotes About People

There's no expert on this planet who says that the government telling people what to do actually does any good with this issue, this is going to require an effort on everyone's part.
~ Michelle Obama
I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.
~ Gerrit Smith
The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.
~ Emma Goldman
We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.
~ Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle
There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.
~ Howard Zinn
A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.
~ Jim Leach
We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy
~ Bob Dole
No government can continue good, but under the control of the people.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.
~ Jane Byrne
The demand of our people in 1980 is not for smaller government or bigger government but for better government.
~ Edward Kennedy
Normally, the opposition gets more media space and even the people find it interesting to listen to voices against the government of the day.
~ Narendra Modi
No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.
~ John F. Kennedy
I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Under both the welfare state and communism, the responsibility for the welfare, security, and prosperity of the people is presumed to rest with the central government.
~ Leonard Read
I'm not a big government guy. I believe in private industries taking care of people. I think they do a better job.
~ Scott Baio
People's position on immigration, once they get "sophisticated," and they rise to the higher levels of commentary or government, it's usually determined solely by economics. And not by anything else.
~ Mark Helprin
I think people are tuning out the political class, tuning out the national media, and the American people are just gonna - we're just gonna demand government as good as our people again.
~ Mike Pence
In my view, stability only comes with a government that is elected by the people and works for the people.
~ Mohamed ElBaradei
Donald Trump represents and speaks for people who get nothing from government.
~ Rush Limbaugh
People, your Government has returned to you!
~ Vaclav Havel
Development seems to have become the agenda only of government. It is seen as a scheme. That should not be the case. Development should be everyone's agenda. It should be a people's movement.
~ Narendra Modi
We do not run government on whims of an individual, our progress is reforms driven, our reforms are policy driven and our policies are people driven.
~ Narendra Modi
A strong government is where the will of the people matters, where the voice of the people is heard and where the dreams of the people are fulfilled.
~ Narendra Modi