Government quotes

Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.

After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?

The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.

We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest.

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.

But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

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

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.

The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.

Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.

To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.