Government Quotes

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.

Gerald F. Lieberman

If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.

G. Gordon Liddy

Europe has shown how government can be organised in a network. Its institutions both compete and co-operate and include a directly elected parliament that does not appoint the executive, independent judiciaries and a complex set of relationships betw...

Geoff Mulgan

Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and across continental Europe the figures are more like several thousand.

Geoff Mulgan

A lot of people in government don't really read books at all.

Geoff Mulgan

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

George McGovern

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

George McGovern

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

George Michael

When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the federal government arbitrarily places one of those factors over others, it makes consumers wor...

Gina McCarthy

The roof cannot collapse when the value pillars of government and society are sound and strong.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

The people want government that works for them at every level.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Real government is about looking beyond the vested to the national interest, setting up the necessary conditions to enable the next, more enabled and more empowered generation to achieve a country as prosperous, a people as content, as ours deserve t...

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

Golda Meir

I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thi...

Gwen Moore

As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.

Gavin Newsom

We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees.

George Noory

It's so critical for people frustrated with the economy, with changing tides in government, who aren't able to hear their voices, questions or their ills being talked about, to have a place for discussing what others won't.

George Noory

The BBC will always be attacked by whoever is in government. It is that George Bush thing of 'If you're not with us you are against us.'

Graham Norton

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Grover Norquist