1,009 Quotes Regarding Government


When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.
David Mamet

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.
Golda Meir

Government is dysfunctional.
Michael Bloomberg

There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.
Marco Rubio

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.
Marco Rubio

You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.
Marco Rubio

Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.
Marco Rubio

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
Jimmy Carter

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.
Jimmy Carter

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

World War II was the last government program that really worked.
George Will

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
Grover Cleveland

As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
Stephen Fry

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
Barbara Bush

Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.
Jesse Ventura

We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.
Newt Gingrich

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.
Newt Gingrich

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
Newt Gingrich

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.
Newt Gingrich

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.
Glenn Beck