Government Quotes

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

We have had 10 years of bad governance, and we may not recover if another bad government is elected.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Any government I lead will continue with the equality of gay and lesbian people.

In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

I will ensure that no criminal will ever get any political protection in my government. If anyone takes law in his hands, he would not be spared.

The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

No longer are technology and cyber issues confined to tech geeks in some backroom. In the digital age, IT issues are front and center. They are central to what government does and how it does it.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.