Government Quotes

There is the bipartisan pretense that the FBI is the only government agency in Washington that is above reproach. Yet, this is the agency that collaborated with Lois Lerner and the IRS in an effort to criminally prosecute opponents of Barack Obama.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

The Chinese government supports Chinese companies in going global. But we believe that this process should be market-oriented, with companies being the main driver.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

If the earmark is reinstated, get ready for an avalanche of government waste coming in the form of a Democrat wish list.

No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers.

A no deal Brexit would be a complete failure by the government to negotiate for Britain.

It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.

As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies.

If you want to believe that the government's coming for our guns or that being gay is a choice and a sin or that ObamaCare signals the end of civilization or that cutting taxes for rich people is the path to a better America, that's your choice. I'm never going to believe in any of that.

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

I love my country. It's just the government I don't trust.

You always worry about the devaluation of the dollar, but the devaluation of the dollar is based oftentimes on what the government decides to do.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?