Government Quotes

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.

Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.

I've always been about less government.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times.

I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community.

No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.

The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.

Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.

During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.

Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.

But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.

The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.

When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it.