Quotes about government
government liberty libertarian
The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent. Joseph Sobran
government names ideas
People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to measure the chilling effect on innovation that results from the threats of taxation, regulation and prosecution against anything that succeeds. We'll never know how many ideas our government has aborted in the name protecting us.
government liberty citizens
The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom".
government america serious
I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.
government liberty politics
If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.
government serious consideration
The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously. Joseph Brodsky
government attention pay
We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing. Paul R. Ehrlich
government giving together
We've all got to get together and demand something better out of our government and out of each other. We've got a system that's making us working harder, and isn't giving us satisfaction. We've got to sit down and decide what the hell we really want to be as human beings.
government people united-states
This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen. Paul Robeson
government important needs
Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further. Patrick McHenry
government race different
Why would we have different races if God meant us to be alike and associate with each other? Lester Maddox
government people fabric
The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution. Leopoldo Lopez
government information able
Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head. Leon Panetta
government agency people
Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.
government hierarchy incompetence
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence. Laurence J. Peter
government europe leader
Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the Revolutionary generation. Familiar as the founders were with old Europe . . . they understood why the accumulation of inherited wealth led to inequities and imbalances that inevitably corrupted any system of government. Joe Conason
government political islam
Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim. Pat Robertson
government citizens steps
When any civil government steps outside the mandate authorized by God Almighty, then that government does not have any further claim over its citizens.
government years people
I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are at least 10 to 15 years ahead of their governments. P. Chidambaram
government political economic
A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
government important interest
Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests. P. T. Barnum
government safety people
Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people’s money, other people’s safety, other people’s future. P. D. James
government people moral
No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.
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 listening honor
Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on? Paul Newman
government realizing madmen
Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency? Mark Hanna