Government Quotes

Only the Liberal Democrats have probed the government's failings consistently, thoroughly and effectively.

We have taken God out of our education system. We have taken Him out of government. You have lawyers that sue you every time you mention the name of Jesus Christ in any public forum.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

We run courses for government school teachers on Sundays. These teachers pay for their own food and stay; the kind of commitment you find in these people is remarkable.

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

The practice of passing bills to find out what is in them represents a Forrest Gump-box of chocolates approach to government in which the taxpayers never know what they are going to get.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.

When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.