When it comes to federal spending, George W. Bush is the boy who cant say no. In each of his three years at the helm, the president has warned Congress to restrain its spending appetites,...

Is that all, sir? Only we’ve got stuff to finish before our knocking-off time, you see, and if we stay late we have to make more money to pay our overtime, and if the lads...

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

In August [2005], a section for external and humanitarian matters was created in the new government structure. I was put in charge of that section, which included five or six ministries singled out in that...

It is your government which is seizing the people of Iraq and killing them. It is your government which is supporting the rotten governments in our countries.

When the competent men of the system are compelled to quit, the system will soon quit itself.

My definition of democracy is – A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in the social life are brought about without bloodshed. That is the real test. It is perhaps the severest...

All the parties that receive petrol revenue – including the oil companies, service stations and Government – need to be more accountable.

Government officials are still learning to trust the market mechanism. They are containing inflation, but you’re building up more and more distortions in the economy.

…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division.

…they say if you don’t vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.

Serikali haifungi mtu kutokana na shinikizo la watu. Inafunga mtu kutokana na sheria za nchi.

The industry is certainly one of the sectors that our government believes has the potential to drive our economic development in the near-and long-term future, particularly because of the impact it has on the rural...

Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.

I was once attacked by a Federal park. But due to governmental inefficiencies, I had to report it to highway patrol.

Coming after Peter Harvey and at a time citizens are so skeptical of government, to appoint a political operative is dreadful.

Yet the possibility of information storage, beyond what men and governments ever had before, can make available at the touch of a button a man’s total history (including remarks put on his record by his...

You are a dangerous experimenter, a utopian, a theorist, a despiser of the laws; you would shake the basis upon which society rests.

If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men’s eyes–there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we are moved to prevent suffering, not just avenge it?

I want a house with a garage, so someone from the government won’t try to park a tank in my living room.

I thought this plan was supposed to offer tax relief for those who paid too much to the government. I’m sure it will help these people, but it is not tax relief, as the governor...

The federal government has torn apart my personal life with the intrusive and overbearing investigation.

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries...

For the American people, Katrina is one of the biggest symbols that this government doesn’t work for their interests.

We call on the government of Iran to ensure no harm comes to these individuals and to release them.

The government has to update its regulations.

This episode is sorry, and it is sordid, and it has brought down not only our government and the head of our government but the whole country, … I mean the very fact that I...

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived…” (Bk2:3)

It’s one thing to stick to your guns. It’s quite another to hold those guns to the heads of your citizens.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

The government asked for the conference call in order to get more time. The government wants more time because they realize how vague, ambiguous, and poorly written their proposal is after reading our filing yesterday.

In my considered opinion, salary is payment for goods delivered and it must conform to the law of supply and demand. If, therefore, the fixed salary is a violation of this law – as, for...

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

Why is there never a headline that says “Government program ends as its intended goal has been achieved”?

I love my country, not my government.

Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people’s faith,...

If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.

Of course, I am going to ask the majority party to form the government.

That’s bigger that the bailout of the airlines following 9-11. The government is heavily in this project.

Impartiality is the life of justice, as justice is of all good government

The ploy is to make Zimbabweans passive consumers of government propaganda churned out by the state-owned media everyday. The ploy is to create a media terrain of government apologists and praise singers as if that...

The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength. One need only study the...

They were given to me voluntarily. I don’t have plans and plots against the government.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

The word “rights”, is something that governments need to provide you and protect you from but, the governments are the basic violators of all human rights.

Price controls almost invariably produce black markets, where prices are not only higher than the legally permitted prices, but also higher than they would be in a free market, since the legal risks must also...

The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in...

This bill is only coming about this year because of the financial pressure from the federal government.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.