Government Quotes

It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.

~ John Amery

We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government.

~ Meir Soloveichik

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.

~ Edward Snowden

I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

~ Jodi Rell

I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.

~ Kirsten Gillibrand

Erosion of faith and trust in government - that is the real problem that confronts us.

~ Rodrigo Duterte

The death of compromise has become a threat to our nation as we confront crucial issues such as the debt ceiling and that most basic of legislative responsibilities: a federal budget. At stake is the very meaning of what had once seemed unshakable: 'the full faith and credit' of the U.S. government.

~ Deborah Tannen

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

~ Jesse Helms

If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.

~ Eric Schneiderman

You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies.

~ Rick Santorum

To restore the American experiment in democratic self-government, religious believers need to redouble their civic efforts. For without our active participation in politics, the government will continue to trample on our rights. The Constitution does not prevent people of faith from being active in politics.

~ Edwin Meese

I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.

~ Christopher Gadsden

Google has withdrawn from China, arguing that it is no longer willing to design its search engine to block information that the Chinese government does not wish its citizens to have. In liberal democracies around the world, this decision has generally been greeted with enthusiasm.

~ Peter Singer

When government programs aren't working, those on the Left tend to support more funding, while those on the Right want to scrap them altogether. It is better to ask whether the problem is complexity and poor design. We can solve those problems - sometimes without spending a penny.

~ Cass Sunstein

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

~ Mary Astell

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

~ Charles Bass

One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.

~ Rand Paul

I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.

~ Rand Paul

The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.

~ Ted Cruz

I'm totally against straight marriage - even though I'm married. I don't think heterosexual marriage is any of the government's business.

~ Penn Jillette

If we are going to realise our ambition of ending the harmful practices of FGM and forced marriage, the role of young people in pushing for change is crucial. We also need to ensure that everyone, from government to civil society, is playing their part.

~ Theresa May

I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.

~ Gary Johnson

I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.

~ Gary Johnson

You know, Republicans should have a consistent philosophy. And if your philosophy is about limited government and not intruding in people's lives, you shouldn't just inconveniently take a social issue like gay marriage and say, 'Well, unless we think - actually we should be intruding your life.'

~ Mark Mckinnon

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

~ Tony Campolo

President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?

~ Tony Campolo

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

~ Tony Campolo

I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

~ Roseanne Barr

With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay?

~ Lisa Murkowski

The government shouldn't be involved in this because it's very simple. If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry somebody of the same sex.

~ Wanda Sykes

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

~ Barack Obama

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

~ Henry Clay

Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.

~ John Battelle

I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.

~ Tony Abbott

People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

~ Carl Paladino

I do believe that it was through divine providence that the Founding Fathers drafted a document that created a government that didn't trust each other - hence the separation of powers. And then, to close the deal, the Bill of Rights was added to continue to protect individual rights and freedoms.

~ John Shimkus

The essence of good government is trust.

~ Kathleen Sebelius

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

~ James Comey

We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well.

~ Thad Cochran

National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.

~ Al Franken