Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tucker Carlson

I'm a small government conservative.

Tucker Carlson

I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.

Trey Gowdy

I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons.

Trey Gowdy

It always matters whether or not you can trust your government.

Sandra Day O'Connor

The prima facie evidence provision in this case ignores all of the contextual factors that are necessary to decide whether a particular cross burning is intended to intimidate. The First Amendment does not permit such a shortcut.

Sandra Day O'Connor

The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.

Sandra Day O'Connor

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

Sandra Day O'Connor

You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

Sandra Day O'Connor

The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities, or even for the benefit of the public officials governing the States. To the contrary, the Constitution divides authority between federal and state governments for the protection of individuals.

Sandra Day O'Connor

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

Rose Wilder Lane

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.

Roger Mudd

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.

Roger Wicker

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

Roger Wicker

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

Rod Stewart

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

Robert Toombs

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.

Satish Kumar

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.

Satish Kumar

Our modern world of old story is completely failing humanity. This is the reason that increasing numbers of people have become and are becoming disillusioned from politics. People don't like voting. Whoever you vote, government gets in. Whatever they promise, they never fulfill.

Sarah Vowell

The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.

Sandy Adams

The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.

Samuel Johnson

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.

Samuel Johnson

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

William Henry Ashley

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.

William Henry Harrison

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

William Howard Taft

The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in our treaties and statutes or of strict administrative regulations secured by diplomatic negotiations. I sincerely hope that we may continue to minimize the evils likely to arise from such immigration without unnecessary friction and by mutual concessions between self-respecting governments.

William Howard Taft

It is not impossible, of course, after such an administration as Roosevelt's and after the change in method that I could not but adapt in view of my different way of looking at things, that questions should arise as to whether I should go back on the principles of the Roosevelt administration.... I have a government of limited power under a Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law. Now, if that is reactionary, then I am a reactionary.

William Howard Taft

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

William Howard Taft

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

Washington Irving

There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.

Walter Lippmann

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

Walter Lippmann

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Walter Lippmann

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.