Government quotes:
- "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. "
By: Edward Abbey - "I believe we've... we've worked very hard with the Iraqis to build a better place ..."
By: John Abizaid - "The real target is creating enough chaos in Iraq so that an extremist government can ..."
By: John Abizaid - "We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be ..."
By: John Abizaid - "I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government ..."
By: Floyd Abrams - "The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power ..."
By: Floyd Abrams - "The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast ..."
By: Floyd Abrams - "Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands ..."
By: Lord Acton - "It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. "
By: Ansel Adams - "Fear is the foundation of most governments. "
By: John Adams - "The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. "
By: John Adams - "The happiness of society is the end of government. "
By: John Adams - "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to ..."
By: John Adams - "While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little ..."
By: John Adams - "A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a ..."
By: Spiro T. Agnew - "There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing ..."
By: Daniel Akaka - "By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of ..."
By: Todd Akin - "It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that ..."
By: Todd Akin - "Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its ..."
By: Todd Akin - "The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history. "
By: Todd Akin - "The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative ..."
By: Todd Akin - "While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the ..."
By: Madeleine Albright - "A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its ..."
By: Amos Bronson Alcott - "In 1935, when the Social Security system was created, the Government did not need to ..."
By: Wayne Allard - "It has been more than 30 years since this disgraceful episode occurred, and I believe ..."
By: Wayne Allard - "Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out ..."
By: Steve Allen - "I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. "
By: Woody Allen - "I was on two: the National Security Committee, and the Government Reform and Oversight Committee. ..."
By: Tom Allen - "Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in ..."
By: Thomas H. Allen - "The Energy Efficiency Cornerstone Act provides a wide range of meaningful incentives to encourage greater ..."
By: Thomas H. Allen - "Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to ..."
By: Sidney Altman - "Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but ..."
By: Kevin J. Anderson - "We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments ..."
By: Kofi Annan - "Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in ..."
By: Corazon C. Aquino
- "National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, ..."
By: Corazon C. Aquino - "Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make ..."
By: Aristotle - "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in ..."
By: Aristotle - "Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest ..."
By: William H. Ashley - "As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and ..."
By: Bashar al-Assad - "I once had aspirations to be an anthropologist, and I know from anthropology that people ..."
By: David Attenborough - "Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and ..."
By: David Attenborough - "A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 ..."
By: Norman R. Augustine - "By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than ..."
By: Norman R. Augustine - "It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes. "
By: Svetlana Alliluyeva - "The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. "
By: Jack Anderson - "Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people ..."
By: Clement Attlee - "Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on ..."
By: Bruce Babbitt - "Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - ..."
By: Walter Bagehot - "The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible ..."
By: Walter Bagehot - "Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to ..."
By: Howard Baker - "I explained the American situation. I promised to pass on the substance of her communication ..."
By: Howard Baker - "I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens ..."
By: Howard Baker - "I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan ..."
By: Howard Baker - "I think it is a great tribute to the Government of Japan and to those ..."
By: Howard Baker - "We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of ..."
By: Howard Baker - "Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - ..."
By: John Baldacci - "When Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon spokespeople say to you, 'Well, this is going to ..."
By: Alec Baldwin - "The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a ..."
By: Johnny Ball - "I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry. "
By: Jim Barksdale - "I want my testimony to stand on that point. But I would point out that ..."
By: Jim Barksdale - "It is a law that did what it said it would do - no more, ..."
By: Michael D. Barnes - "After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government ..."
By: Roy Barnes - "And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office ..."
By: Roy Barnes - "By creating a Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, we will give local governments a ..."
By: Roy Barnes - "I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government. "
By: Roy Barnes - "My whole life I've been an advocate for open records - transparency in government - ..."
By: Roy Barnes - "No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or ..."
By: Roy Barnes
- "The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from ..."
By: Dave Barry - "You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the ..."
By: Bernard Baruch - "State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program ..."
By: Charles Foster Bass - "The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. ..."
By: Charles Foster Bass - "The federal government has been cutting back on restrictions on the exportation of sensitive technologies ..."
By: Charles Foster Bass - "The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of ..."
By: Charles Foster Bass - "The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design ..."
By: Charles Foster Bass - "The United States government has only itself to blame for the Chinese government's ability to ..."
By: Charles Foster Bass - "These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments ..."
By: Charles Foster Bass - "Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel ..."
By: Max Baucus - "Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be ..."
By: Jean Baudrillard - "Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to ..."
By: Henry Ward Beecher - "The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. "
By: Henry Ward Beecher - "I certainly believe that UFOs are really on occasion extraterrestrial craft visiting earth, so to ..."
By: Art Bell - "Our government, at least according to the NIGHTLINE program that ran, financed STAR GATE over ..."
By: Art Bell - "Ethics in government has always been important to me. "
By: Chris Bell - "Conversely, it would be entirely inappropriate for the U.S. to grant any special trade privileges, ..."
By: Howard Berman - "I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence ..."
By: Howard Berman - "In a 1998 report to the U.N., the Iranian government acknowledged that ILSA deterred foreign ..."
By: Howard Berman - "In any nation, there is typically no bigger organization than its government, and no greater ..."
By: Howard Berman - "In Joan's case, the thief of her intellectual property rights is not some private syndicate ..."
By: Howard Berman - "Joan's personal story of intellectual property theft by the Russian government provides a context to ..."
By: Howard Berman - "The Civil Liberties Restoration Act is our effort to return oversight to our legal system ..."
By: Howard Berman - "We can use these expanded broadcasts to explain U.S. policies to the Iranian people as ..."
By: Howard Berman - "Where a foreign government is itself stealing intellectual property from a U.S. citizen, it is ..."
By: Howard Berman - "While $1.6 billion may only be a small portion of the federal budget deficit currently ..."
By: Howard Berman - "With our industry being watched so carefully by governmental agencies, with the FTC ready to ..."
By: William Bernbach - "In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored ..."
By: Ambrose Bierce - "Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. "
By: Ambrose Bierce - "I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to ..."
By: Bill Bixby - "A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. "
By: Hugo Black - "Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part ..."
By: Hugo Black - "In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly ..."
By: Hugo Black
