Quotes of: Government-control Keyword

Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed

Harriet Beecher Stowe

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

Jacques Delors

I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'

Ernie Fletcher

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.

George McGovern

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

Grover Norquist

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Herbert Hoover

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

Harold MacMillan

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

George Dennison Prentice

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Constitutional Code; For the Use All Nations and All Governments Professing Liberal Opinions Volume 1

Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of ...

The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they c...

The Constitution: A Heavenly Banner

You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.

Veterans of the Psychic Wars

I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.

Pat Toomey

I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.

Rima Fakih

We cannot control how others treat us but we can control the way we react to them.

Sarah Tse

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.

Keith Miller

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Marshall Field

You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.

Ronald Perelman

As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.

Ebon Moss-Bachrach