Quotes about Government

“We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.”

“When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.”

“I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.”

“As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly.”

“Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.”

“A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.”

“The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.”

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

“In my view, the government has ample justification to inquire about citizenship status on the census and could plainly provide rationales for doing so that would satisfy the Supreme Court.”

“Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.”

“Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.”

“In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.”

“No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.”

“Government is essentially immoral.”

“Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.”

“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”

“We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.”

“Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets.”

“Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.”

“The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.”

“The idea that we have progressives inside the Democratic Party - it's actually more deleterious to the progressive movement to have them there because it gives people the false impression that there's somebody in government fighting for you, that there's one of the parties that are kind of on your side and they aren't.”