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Quotes About People

But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people - not governments - create jobs.
~ Scott Walker
I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are at least 10 to 15 years ahead of their governments.
~ P. Chidambaram
No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.
~ P. D. James
Government was instituted by God to bring His laws to people and to carry out His will and purposes.
~ Pat Robertson
There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.
~ Ray Bradbury
Each and every one of us has a vital part to play in building the kind of world in which government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.
~ Rick Perry
America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.
~ Rick Perry
The Federal Reserve and Congress have systematically taught the American people to trust the government and that caution in spending is harmful to the economy.
~ Ron Paul
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
~ George Washington
The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles of our system of government.
~ Richard Nixon
Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
~ Henry Clay
Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.
~ Grover Cleveland
Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.
~ Theodore Parker
It seems to me that government is like a pump and what it pumps up is just what we are a fair sample of the intellect the ethics and the morals of the people no better no worse.
~ Adlai Stevenson
We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
~ Yahoo Serious
Anyone who believes in the essential role government can play in improving people's lives must also be the toughest critics of those who abuse the public trust.
~ Eric Schneiderman
How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?
~ Kapil Sibal
Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded that government should stand aside and let finance and business run the show.
~ David Blunkett
Our form of government depends on a mutual bond of trust between the people and their government. But people have become cynical about their government.
~ Sonny Perdue
People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans they have to be self-reliant.
~ Scott Cook
Not every innovation in transportation is going to come from government or even a large enterprise. There are smart people out there with tools and skills to come up with great ideas.
~ Anthony Foxx