Government Quotes - Page 193

Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded.

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.

Once a person comes to rely on the government for support, that person becomes a socialist through and through.

Liberals believe and inexhaustible fund exists that can be tapped endlessly to pay for government social programs. Tax the rich and give it to a long line of moochers, pork barrel hustlers and ne'er-do-wells. These funds would otherwise have been employed as additional capital indispensable to economic progress.

Our process inside the United States government has gotten much better at making sure we touch all possible source of information about a refugee. The interview process has gotten more robust, so we've gotten our act together in that respect. The challenge remains, especially with respect to folks coming from Syria, we're unlikely to have anything in our holdings. That is, with people coming from Iraq, the United States government was there for a very long period of time. We had biometrics, we had source information. We're unlikely to have that kind of picture about someone coming from Syria.

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.

Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the Kurdish people.

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to be decided by those I political power.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

Relationships between governments are important, but relationships between people are the real foundation of mutual understanding.

We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967.

All murder is a tragedy but when journalists are killed, public debate loses a voice that can provide an important contribution to democracy. It is essential that governments do all they can to ensure safe conditions for journalists to carry out their work.

The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions

I learned from my past, and I now employ those lessons going forward, looking to the future - don't you think it's about time our government did, too?

We are not going into government with Sinn Fein.

The fact that the U.S. government spends millions of dollars to send murderous robot planes into other people's land to murder them, into other countries, that's a problem. That's what people should be concerned about. The fact that other people don't understand me is not a problem. I keep things in perspective.