Quotes and Sayings About Government
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There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip.
-- Alice Oswald -
He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth -
The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.
-- Alice Waters -
The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.
-- Alistair Cooke -
Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.
-- Allan H. Meltzer -
It's true that the judgement of what firearms should be prohibited will be decided by the government of the day - and shouldn't it be that way?
-- Allan Rock -
A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.
-- Allan Sherman -
In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.
-- Allen Weinstein -
There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.
-- Allen West -
When you talk about raising that debt limit, the only way that I would ever support raising the debt limit if we also talk about budgetary controls on the federal government, capping its spending, how do we deal with the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid problems, because they cannot continue to run on auto-pilot.
-- Allen West -
I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that's what the Tea Party was all about. It's getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it's also effective and efficient. I think that that's what we'll be able to do.
-- Allen West -
I'm a conservative because I believe we're here on this earth to do a little more than crawl through life, comfortable in the cradle of government excess and oblivious to the duties required to keep this republic standing.
-- Allen West -
Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.
-- Allen West -
Maggie threw her head back and laughed. 'So you're going to try...what? Birds of a Feather?' she quested. 'Of course not,' Kat said. 'Everyone knows the French government banned the importation of peacocks in 1987.
-- Ally Carter -
The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.
-- Allyson Schwartz -
I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.
-- Alphonso Jackson -
But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government.
-- Alphonso Jackson -
It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.
-- Alva Myrdal -
Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.
-- Alveda King -
In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property.
-- Alvin Francis Poussaint -
The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.
-- Ambrose -
Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired.
-- Aminu Kano -
If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.
-- Amiri Baraka -
The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.
-- Amitav Ghosh -
Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.
-- Amity Shlaes
