Government Quotes

Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.

~ Ralph Nader

As far as the constitution allows me, I will try to ensure that there is responsible and accountable governance at all levels of government in the country. For I will not have kept my own trust with the Nigerian people if I allow others abuse theirs under my watch.

~ Muhammadu Buhari

Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.

~ Samantha Power

There was a time when the United States government earned the trust of its people. There was a time when most people believed that the United States government was protecting them.

~ Rush Limbaugh

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

~ Marco Rubio

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

Let me say this: I'm paranoid of the government. They've lost my trust. They've lied to me so many times that I don't know what to believe from them anymore.

~ Jesse Ventura

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

People don't trust government, they don't trust Wall Street, they don't trust the church, they don't trust the media.

~ Donna Brazile

I trust my government. I actually have a trust for my government with my data, and I trust them to protect me. They've protected me - they've made the best efforts to protect me my whole life.

~ Ashton Kutcher

I trust the integrity of the British government and the British soldiers.

~ Ehud Olmert

Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays for current benefits; anything that's left over goes into trust funds for the future. The programs were designed this way for political reasons.

~ James Surowiecki

Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese.

~ Paul Watson

People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.

~ Martin O'malley

Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.

~ Simon Mainwaring

Anyone who believes in the essential role government can play in improving people's lives must also be the toughest critics of those who abuse the public trust.

~ Eric Schneiderman

Nobody in this country is on Social Security because they made the decision when they were starting work at 14 that they wanted to trust some of their money with the government. The government took it out of their check whether they wanted them to or not.

~ Mike Huckabee

We pledge to you that we will create jobs. End economic uncertainty and make America more competitive. We will cut Washington wasteful spending and reduce the size of government. And we will reform Congress and restore your trust in government.

~ Kevin Mccarthy

When Arizona became a state, the federal government granted our founders nearly 11 million acres of state land. Every time we sell a piece of that land, proceeds go into the Land Trust where the money is invested and earns interest.

~ Doug Ducey

How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?

~ Kapil Sibal

I've served in 25 nations. I've seen where people don't trust their government. We're there. In the military, the last option is to send in the SEALs.

~ Ryan Zinke

Individual people shouldn't be fearful, because by and large our government, the federal government - people always talk; obviously, they don't trust the feds, whatever. The federal government and local communities have done a pretty good job at keeping us safe.

~ Sherrod Brown

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.

~ Lysander Spooner

Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.

~ Shimon Peres

A government that can take all and can seize all, a government that doesn't trust its citizens, a government that says it's their way or the highway... that's the scary part.

~ Paul Gosar

I do not understand where the backing of Bitcoin is coming from. There is no fundamental issue of capabilities of repaying it in anything which is universally acceptable, which is either intrinsic value of the currency or the credit or trust of the individual who is issuing the money, whether it's a government or an individual.

~ Alan Greenspan

Our form of government depends on a mutual bond of trust between the people and their government. But people have become cynical about their government.

~ Sonny Perdue

China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.

~ Virginia Foxx

Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'

~ John Mcafee

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

~ George Bernard Shaw

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

~ Voltaire

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

~ George Bernard Shaw

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

~ Jay Kay

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

~ Will Rogers

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

~ Milton Friedman

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

~ James Mcgreevey

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

~ John F. Kennedy

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

~ Milton Friedman