Government Quotes - Page 3

I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

Now judicial review, beloved by conservatives, can, of course, fulfill the excellent function of declaring government interventions and tyrannies unconstitutional. But it can also validate and legitimize the government in the eyes of the people by declaring these actions valid and constitutional.

American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

I'm one of those guys who believes in next to zero government. They just screw everything up.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

There is no doubt whatsoever that the U.S. government, lead by Mr. Bush, planned and participated in a coup d'etat in Venezuela in April, 2002.

Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.

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.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services.

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.

I didn't even have a birth certificate until I was 9 years old, which meant that, according to the state of Idaho and the federal government, I just didn't exist.

It is disconcerting to sit with your parent and find you're turning over your future to your government, which can't manage their money.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs.