government Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about government.
“You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.”
- Karel Capek
“In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.”
- Carroll Quigley
“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.”
- Milton Friedman
“We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.”
- Marco Rubio
“And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.”
- John Boehner
“Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.”
- Thomas B. Macaulay
“Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.”
- Rush Limbaugh
“And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.”
- Marco Rubio
“I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.”
- Ginger Baker
“All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.”
- Jesse Ventura