Government Quotes - Page 5

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.

Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.

In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask Austria to consider some modification of her demands, under the threat of Russian mobilization.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

My message to everyone: the next time you hear about migrant children near the border, just picture them as your own. Then think what you would want our government to do.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

I believe always you should have a philanthropic heart inside but business way. Because you have to get things done. That is what scientists tell us how to do properly. Business should tell us how to get things done efficiently. And government should have the good environment and the foundations of researching.

The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State.

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.

Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '£10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia.

America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

We're a country of rule of law, and rule of law doesn't move fast, especially in an entity as big the U.S. government.

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a government that shall have authority over the weaker party, it may be answered that the most despotic governments in the world rest upon that very principle, viz.: the consent of the strongest party.

There is no doubt that in the last years of the UPA's rule, a certain lethargy had set into the way the central government went about its business.

Our democracy only works when the official opposition does its job of opposing the government of the day and offers a clear alternative vision for our country, including giving a voice to the voiceless.

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.