Government Quotes

The Bill of Rights is a remarkable document because it weaves into the fabric of our democracy the idea that government has a responsibility to protect individual liberty.

As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

I like policy. It's why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government - you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that's important to me.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.