Government Quotes

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms.

We were on welfare, and my mom thought you needed the government to survive. 'Don't try to make it on your own, because it won't be enough. The kids won't be fed:' My mom believed that lie. So I've lived with a poverty mentality. But after I got my first job, at a local McDonald's, and I got my first check, I felt such a sense of pride.