Quotes about Government

“If the government can afford luxury travel for its cabinet officials, then surely we can find the resources to invest in quality education, jobs skills training, and properly fund the State Department and foreign aid programs.”

“It is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor.”

“The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.”

“For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.”

“It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.”

“The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.”

“Voters quickly forget what a man says.”

“Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.”

“Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.”

“If anyone should do any pardoning. I should be the one pardoning the government for what they did to the Japanese-American people.”

“Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.”

“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”

“The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.”

“I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law.”

“I have established the republic. But today it is not clear whether the form of government is a republic, a dictatorship, or personal rule.”

“Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.”

“Transparency is our hallmark, and government is acting on the roadmap of economic revolution.”

“At no time during the period intervening between the ratification of the Constitution and the inauguration of the new government were the leaders in Federalism certain that the agrarian party, which had opposed the Constitution, might not render the instrument ineffectual by securing possession of Congress.”

“For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.”

“There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.”

“This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.”