Quotes about Government
Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.
— Bill Gates
It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.
— Billy Graham
Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
— Ronald Reagan
Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.
— Ronald Reagan
We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.
— Albert Schweitzer
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
— James Madison
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
— John Updike
We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
— William Howard Taft
Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.
— Bill Gates
Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.
— Bill Gates
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
— Thomas Jefferson
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
— Calvin Coolidge