Government Quotes - page 22

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. (Hubert Humphrey)
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used, and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
Kashmir has never been an integral part of India. It is a historical fact. Even the Indian government has accepted this. View quote
Arundhati Roy
Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed. View quote
William Cobbett
No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine. View quote
William Blum
I have no doubt in my mind that our chief national problems relating to the eradication of poverty, illiteracy and disease and the scientific production and distribution can be tackled only along socialistic lines. The Very first thing that our future national government will have to do is to set up a commission for drawing up a comprehensive plan for reconstruction. View quote
Subhas Chandra Bose
Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about. View quote
Alan Sillitoe
My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you. View quote
Orson Scott Card
It might be crazy to expect a high government official to speak the truth. It might be crazy to believe that government policy will be something more than the handmaiden of the most powerful interests. It might be crazy to argue that we should preserve a tradition that has been part of our tradition for most of our history - free culture. If this is crazy, then let there be more crazies. Soon. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
The weather is like the government, always in the wrong. (Jerome K. Jerome)
Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of Palestinians expelled by terror to return. Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, is a war criminal who should be in prison, not in office. Israel's own Kahan commission found that Sharon shared responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacres. View quote
Ken Livingstone
This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life. View quote
Kathleen Turner
Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation. View quote
Lindsey Graham
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence. View quote
John Foster Dulles
As I see it, the sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself. View quote
Larry Flynt
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. View quote
George Washington
Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened. View quote
George Washington
It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. View quote
George Washington
Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant. View quote
Ani DiFranco
Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconservatives in Canada. (Jane Jacobs)
It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large scale adaptations have to be made, central control is far more flexible. It may take two months to get an answer to a letter from a government department, but it takes twenty years for an industry under private enterprise to readjust itself to a fall in demand. View quote
Joan Robinson
The government and the church are two different realms of service, and those in political office have to face a subtle but important difference between the implementation of the high ideals of religious faith and public duty. View quote
Jimmy Carter
I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are French Canadians or who are blacks trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods. This is a natural inclination... Government should not break up a neighborhood on a numerical basis. As soon as the Government does, the white folks flee. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. (for democracy) In Britain, the road to (democratic government) took seven centuries to traverse. View quote
Jeane Kirkpatrick