Government Quotes - page 11

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. (Ronald Reagan)
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! View quote
Ronald Reagan
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone. View quote
Mario Puzo
Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses. View quote
Andy Stern
Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government. View quote
Ulrich Beck
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. View quote
Charles Cooley
There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair. View quote
Arthur C. Brooks
In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing. (Don Tapscott)
It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people. View quote
Eisaku Sato
It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance. View quote
Eisaku Sato
The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of people who were, in one way or another, affected by the violence either directly or indirectly. View quote
Jose Ramos-Horta
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. View quote
Elihu Root
Micro managing anything is not a great role for government. View quote
William Weld
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. View quote
William Weld
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum. View quote
William Weld
Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy. View quote
Corazon Aquino
National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services. View quote
Corazon Aquino
Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who receive some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it. [citation needed]. (Jack Kemp)
Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system. View quote
Imran Khan
The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism. View quote
Mike Pence
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States. View quote
Albert Bushnell Hart
I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death. View quote
Ahmed Ben Bella