940 private quotes tagged 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.”— Andrew Jackson

“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.”— Lysander Spooner

“Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.”— Luke Scott

“The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.”— Andy Rooney

“I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.”— Andrew Cuomo

“Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.”— Gerald R. Ford

“The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.”— Rand Paul

“There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.”— Ehud Olmert

“It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.”— John Sununu

“Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.”— Curt Schilling

“We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.”— Theresa May

“My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.”— Aung San Suu Kyi

“So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK.”— Tom Colicchio

“If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.”— Aung San Suu Kyi

“If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.”— Loni Anderson

“The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.”— Theresa May

“Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.”— Dan Rather

“One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.”— Vito Fossella

“I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.”— Andrew Cuomo

“What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.”— Barbara Jordan

“It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.”— Edward Norton

“The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.”— Rupert Murdoch

“I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government.”— Theresa May

“There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums.”— Theresa May