Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tucker Carlson

I'm a small government conservative.

Tucker Carlson

I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.

Trey Gowdy

I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons.

Trey Gowdy

It always matters whether or not you can trust your government.

Ulrich Beck

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.

Ulysses S. Grant

So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses of the same, will not be looked upon acquiescently by those who have to pay the taxes. . . . I would suggest the taxation of all property equally.

Ulysses S. Grant

It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.

Ulysses S. Grant

The theory of government changes with general progress.

Robin Hayes

With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.

Robin Hobb

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

Robert Runcie

Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government.

Robert Ringer

If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do, that area is the purchasing of gold.

Robert Reich

One of the things I tell my students is that if you want to understand what's been going on and also what needs to be done, you've got to get out of the blame game. Some people on the left want to blame the rich and corporations. Some people on the right want to blame the poor and government. Either of those frames of reference gets you nowhere and they aren't even truthful. You've got to understand the dynamic itself.

Robert Reich

It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.

Robert Reich

And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying, evolution-denyi ng, science-denying , anti-immigrant House Republicans in history, bent on taking America back to the 19th century.

Robert Novak

It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets.

Robert Nozick

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.

Robert Toombs

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.

Satish Kumar

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.

Satish Kumar

Our modern world of old story is completely failing humanity. This is the reason that increasing numbers of people have become and are becoming disillusioned from politics. People don't like voting. Whoever you vote, government gets in. Whatever they promise, they never fulfill.

Sarah Vowell

The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.

Sandy Adams

The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.

Samuel Johnson

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.

Samuel Johnson

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

William Henry Ashley

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.

William Henry Harrison

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

William Howard Taft

The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in our treaties and statutes or of strict administrative regulations secured by diplomatic negotiations. I sincerely hope that we may continue to minimize the evils likely to arise from such immigration without unnecessary friction and by mutual concessions between self-respecting governments.

William Howard Taft

It is not impossible, of course, after such an administration as Roosevelt's and after the change in method that I could not but adapt in view of my different way of looking at things, that questions should arise as to whether I should go back on the principles of the Roosevelt administration.... I have a government of limited power under a Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law. Now, if that is reactionary, then I am a reactionary.

William Howard Taft

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

William Howard Taft

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

Warren Christopher

I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves.

Warren Beatty

Government is not show business.