Top 457 Government Quotes

There are always ways to make government better, always ways to make sure that the taxes of people are better spent.

I think the governors would all agree that what we don't want from the federal government is unfunded mandates.

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

There's nothing to be said for opposition. You can only talk about things and you can lay your plans. You can't actually achieve very much; you have to be in government for that.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.