Government Quotes

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

~ Jerry Brown

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days nor in the life of this administration nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.

~ John F. Kennedy

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.

~ Bernard Berenson

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbour.

~ Hubert Humphrey

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

~ George Burns

When we got into office the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

~ John F. Kennedy

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country.

~ Abraham Lincoln

When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

~ Winston Churchill

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles of our system of government.

~ Richard Nixon

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

~ J. K. Galbraith

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast but never sinks.

~ Everett Dirksen

The supply of government exceeds the demand.

~ Lewis H. Lapham

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of governing.

~ Lord Moulton

In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.

~ Johnny Isakson

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

~ Jack Anderson

Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all of our budgets - government, business, and personal. Eventually, the medical price bubble will pop. What, then, are the alternatives?

~ Jim Cooper

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.

~ Robert Reich

A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.

~ John Mackey

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.

~ Robert Anton Wilson

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

~ Amos Bronson Alcott

A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.

~ Jim Leach

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

~ Jesse Ventura

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

~ Tom Robbins

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

~ Ayn Rand

The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.

~ Pauline Hanson

The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.

~ Roy Moore

Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.

~ Bob Ney

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

~ Herbert Hoover

Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.

~ Naveen Jain

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

~ Norman Cousins

It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.

~ Karen Mills

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

~ Rick Santelli

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

~ Joe Biden

There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds the Chinese government's attitude to the Internet and censorship unacceptable.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women.

~ Richard Flanagan

We know a way now to make use of democracy, and we know how to change the attitude of people towards government, but yet the majority of people are without vision. We who have prevision must lead them and guide them into the right way if we want to escape the confusions of Western democracy and not follow in the tracks of the West.

~ Sun Yat-Sen

Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.

~ Jack Kemp

Servants are not allowed to ask questions. They are only supposed to follow orders. That attitude has to change. But in order for it to change, there has to be radical improvement in the quality of the intelligence produced by the Mexican government.

~ Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dysfunction, and a federal government that seemed designed to idle on the sidelines.

~ Nancy Gibbs