Government Quotes

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

Jerome K. Jerome

Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there...

Jesse Jackson

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

Jesse Jackson

I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.

Jack Kemp

To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to s...

Jack Kemp

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things...

Jeff Kinney

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

John Maynard Keynes

I don't like the idea that the government has so much of a say in things.

Johnny Kelly

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.

Jonathan Kozol

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

A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.

Jack Layton

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

Jack Lynch

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'

Jacob Lew

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

Jacob Lew

Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.

James A. Leach

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Russell Lowell

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Russell Lowell

I don't believe we need any more taxes. We need to curtail the size of government. That seems to be a common thread among a majority of Americans out there that understand that we have to limit the size and scope of our government.

Jeff Landry

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

Jerry Lewis

Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.

Jill Lepore