Quotes about Government

“A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.”

“The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.”

“The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.”

“As a woman in Canada, I get to do whatever I want to do, and I'm used to that. I'm used to not having my government tell me my life is going to be restricted because I'm female.”

“Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”

“Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.”

“There's this idea that motherhood is as American as apple pie, but yet we don't support it with any government assistance.”

“Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.”

“When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.”

“I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book - our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion - towards nation.”

“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.”

“During his 2016 campaign, Mr. Trump didn't rely on the word 'hoax.' He didn't even say 'fake news.' He called the news media 'sick' and biased, but he didn't seriously start to deny its legitimacy until January 2017, when he was confronted by evidence that the Russian government aided his election. That's when he truly needed the news to be fake.”

“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.”

“To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.”

“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.”

“I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.”

“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.”

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.”

“Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.”

“You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.”