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Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.
- Thomas Heatherwick
Government Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Government

1.
The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.
O'Rourke, P. J.

2.
The basis of effective government is public confidence.
Kennedy, John F.

3.
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
Socrates

4.
When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects,this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.
Heinlein, Robert

5.
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
Madison, James

6.
Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.
Thomas Heatherwick

7.
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
Fred Thompson

8.
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Solon

9.
Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
Mills, C. Wright

10.
Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.
Lever, Leslie Baron

11.
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
Dulles, John Foster

12.
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
Wilson, Harold

13.
In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.
Tolstoy, Count Leo

14.
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Reagan, Ronald

15.
That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.
Pittacus

16.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
George W. Bush

17.
The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.
Hospers, John

18.
For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.
Nixon, Richard M.

19.
Office without pay makes thieves.
Proverb, German

20.
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
Updike, John

21.
The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.
Boytzwnburg, Count

22.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Friedman, Milton

23.
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
Durant, William J.

24.
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe

25.
But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
Bunting, Basil

26.
The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.
Topes, Lord Justice

27.
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
Updike, John

28.
We have the best government that money can buy.
Twain, Mark

29.
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.
Roosevelt, Theodore

30.
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.
President Barack Obama

31.
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
Themistocles

32.
A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
Bismarck, Otto Von

33.
Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.
Amsterdam, Maury

34.
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Roosevelt, Theodore

35.
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
Chapman, John Jay

36.
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Jefferson, Thomas

37.
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

38.
If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to -- and you will -- leave, and be something else.
Noonan, Peggy

39.
It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.
Wallis, W. Allen

40.
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
H. L. Mencken

41.
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]
Herodotus

42.
Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
Kocher, Gerhard

43.
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.
Carlyle, Thomas

44.
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
Tuchman, Barbara

45.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire

46.
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Hamilton, Alexander

47.
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
Sir Winston Churchill

48.
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.

49.
It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
Lippmann, Walter

50.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Einstein, Albert


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