Quotes about govern
government people moral
No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people. P. D. James
government bullshit television
The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit P. J. O'Rourke
government liberty would-be
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
government feel-good feelings
Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
government self average
Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities. ... [G]overnment is wasteful of the nation's resources, immune to common sense and subject to pressure from every half-organized bouquet of assholes. ... [G]overnment is distrustful of and disrespectful toward average Americans while being easily gulled by Americans with money, influence or fame.
government america people
Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we've got the poor people in.
government self numbers
The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that there is something they are all attached to besides self-aggrandizement and our pocketbooks. ... Government is not a machine with parts; it's an organism. When does an intestine quit being an intestine and start becoming an asshole?
government democracies-have democracy
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
government rebellious proposal
Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
government sin sickness
Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government. Mary Baker Eddy
government rights people
When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. Marquis de Lafayette
government president looks
I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program. Marsha Blackburn
government america entrepreneur
Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.
government focus priorities
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.
government skills answers
It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no. Marquis de Sade
government texas debt
Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work. Mark McKinnon
government taxation regulation
I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.
government elderly people
Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future. Mark Foley
government vote individual
As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament. Mario Monti
government aspiration credible
My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.
government long population
A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won't allow it. Noam Chomsky
government people united-states
In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.
government trying way
American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas. Nikki Haley
government unity reform
My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms. Nicos Anastasiades
government hands balance
It would be a very odd chancellor of any UK government that insisted on a course of action that cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds, that blew a massive hole in their balance of payments and, because assets and liabilities go hand in hand, would potentially leave the rest of the UK shouldering the entirety of UK debt. Nicola Sturgeon
government generations
Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand. Nick Nolte
government media
The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power. Matt Drudge
government mind messages
I love a novel that’s funny, and The Taxman Cometh is very funny, delightfully well-written, yet with a serious message about how government bureaucracy affects us all. Read. Enjoy. And if a comparison to Catch 22 pops into your mind, that’s not surprising. Marvin Kalb
government law confusion
The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them. Mark Twain
government swings people
I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government. Then there will be more and more lifeboats launched because fewer and fewer citizens know how to swim. Unlike some pendulums, political pendulums to not swing back automatically; they must be pushed. History is full of instances when people have waited in vain for pendulums to swing back. Neal A. Maxwell
government people needs
When everyone is part of the people's congress, what need is there for an opposition? Opposition to what? You oppose a government! If there is no government, and the people govern themselves on their own, what are they going to oppose? Something that isn't there? Muammar al-Gaddafi
government league important
We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish. Mitch Daniels
government dollars three
The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.