People are studying whether there's a cause of action that competitors, for example, would have if they're harmed by these foreign government payments.

Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

I don't trust the church or the government, and anything the church or the government tells me I assume to be a lie or a conspiracy, until proven true.

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp and trembly.

Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.

That's what the Ivy League is. And many of the people there are legacy. Their families went there; their families are in government. The kids go there.

The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.

Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.

In a justly organized community, however, government exists to secure the right to life and the other human rights that follow from that primary right.

Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.

No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.

The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.

I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.

Let all those in government be warned: They cannot order people to pay for the murder of babies, and betray God Himself, without horrific consequences.

In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure, because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

Both America and Britain understand that governments must be responsive to everyday working people, that governments must represent their own citizens.

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

We have our differences since the beginning of America. It's a legitimate difference. What is the role of government, et cetera, federal, state, local?

In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.

[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority.

We always say about Hollywood that it's a company town and it's sort of is. It's like in Washington, they say, you know, the company is the government.

I'm just am amazed that he seems to think the Iraqi government and our allies and everybody else launched the attack on Mosul for this election [2016].

The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.

If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do, that area is the purchasing of gold.

I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be.

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.

If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.

It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the automatic response to the oil crisis.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

Right now there’s kind of a generational change. Young Americans do not trust this government. Without trusting government you can't do a lot of things.

When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

Turkey is saying that it wants to preserve Sunni dominance in Mosul. Obviously, there, the Kurds, the Shia, the Iraqi government have their own agendas.

Whenever somebody has an idea for a business and experiences quite a bit of success, you can naturally expect the government to step in and screw it up.

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

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