1,009 Quotes Regarding Government


If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.
Muqtada al Sadr

If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.
Muqtada al Sadr

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.
Lyn Nofziger

Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people.
Muqtada al Sadr

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
Henry A. Wallace

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.
Muqtada al Sadr

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.
Dave Eggers

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.
Muqtada al Sadr

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
Isaac Watts

I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.
Al-Waleed bin Talal

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.
Tim Scott

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.
Gary Bauer

So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.
Monica Lewinsky

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.
Jesse Ventura

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
Gary Bauer

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.
Jesse Ventura

I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
Vince Cable

Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
Gary Bauer

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.
Jesse Ventura

You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous.
Vince Cable