Quotes of: Big-government Keyword

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

Esther Dyson

A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.

Oliver Ellsworth

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

Carter G. Woodson

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

Dexter Scott King

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

Steven Pinker

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

Herman Cain

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

Jonathan Sacks

If you say no to cruel factory farm practices, only then will the government say yes to change.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.

Julian Assange

It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.

James Bovard

But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.

Jane Byrne

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

John Bolton

Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation and economic growth.

Joe Craft

Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.

Jan Egeland

I don't mind the government accruing debts as long as every dollar is spent effectively with a high return. That works out fine. If you accumulate debts and waste your money, that's, of course, a disaster.

Jeremy Grantham

I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.

Judd Gregg

The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.

Jack Layton

The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

Jack Lynch

Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before.

Jacob Lew

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Joe Lhota

Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.

John B. Larson