Quotes about Government

“The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the curriculum or intervene in extra-mural speech.”

“Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed.”

“You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.”

“It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.”

“My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.”

“The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.”

“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.”

“Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.”

“Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.”

“As a candidate for Senate, I look forward to offering reforms based on limited government principles that will make our country stronger and more prosperous.”

“Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.”

“We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.”

“Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.”

“The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace.”

“Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.”

“At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.”

“They say not everyone can be MGR. I agree. MGR is a revolutionary. Not in a 1,000 years can there be another MGR. If anyone says he will be the next MGR, he is insane. But I have the confidence that I can give the government that MGR gave to the people of Tamil Nadu.”

“I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash - a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A.”

“Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.”

“To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.”

“It's no secret that the environmental movement is ultimately designed to create new inroads into increased government control. All of the shots taken at emissions, the dependence on fossil fuels, and noise pollution are designed to paint those things as symptoms of a problem, with the government able to step in as the solution.”