Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. M. Forster

Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support.

Drew Carey

The less government, the better

Douglas Massey

You can't have a market without government, because governments create the rules of competition and enforce fairness in the markets, and they build the institutions within which competition takes place.

Douglas Massey

I want to get away from "It's either government or the market." That's a false dichotomy.

Douglas Massey

For me, liberals are people who seek to use government to promote the general welfare.

Douglas Rushkoff

We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances.

Douglas Rushkoff

Since the dawn of the Internet, I have always operated under the assumption that if the government or corporations have technological capability to do something, they are doing it - whatever the laws we happen to know about might say.

Donald Tusk

I will be engaging myself personally, as the head of the Polish government, in the optimization of conditions for the exploration, research, logistics and the business related to the production of shale gas.

Donald Tusk

My government is in no sense anti-Russian.

Donald Trump

So the Mexican government fed the pope a tremendous amount of stuff about Trump is not a good person, and the pope just made a statement. Can you imagine? I just got a call. As I'm walkin' up here, they said, "Mr. Trump, the pope made a statement about you." I said, "The pope?"

Donald Trump

The worst elements in Mexico are being pushed into the United States by the Mexican government. The Border Patrol knows this. Likewise, tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a hoary superstition that democratically elected governments invariably function as instruments of the collective will.A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.

Donald Rumsfeld

It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.

Donald Rumsfeld

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

Donald Rumsfeld

When it comes to reconstruction, before we turn to the American taxpayer, we will turn first to the resources of the Iraqi government and the international community.

Don Siegelman

All my life I've worked to try to correct and perfect our system of government to make it more fair.

Don Marquis

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The national government was itself the creature of the States...Yet today it is often made to appear that the creature, Frankenstein-like, is determined to destroy the creators.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The true slogan of a true democracy is not `Let the Government do it' but rather, 'let's do it ourselves'.... This is the spirit of a people dedicated to helping themselves and one another.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

Corazon Aquino

The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously ...

Corazon Aquino

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

Dinesh D'Souza

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

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

Dick Morris

We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden - a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the economy, determines private-sector priorities and offers a vastly expanded range of services to many more people at much higher taxes.

Devin Nunes

Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough.

David O. McKay

I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!

David Mamet

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.

David Mamet

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

David Mamet

We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.

Darrell Issa

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

Darrell Issa

Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.