Government Quotes

A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.
Napoleon Bonaparte



To listen to the interests of all, marks an ordinary government; to foresee them, marks a great government.
Napoleon Bonaparte



I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.
Samuel Anthony Alito Jr.



"I believe ... that this Government practises a Pacific form of revised apartheid against the Indian community and should be ashamed of calling itself Christian."
James Ah Koy



"I believe that this nation will be continuously cursed, until the leadership of this Government changes its accursed policy of Pacific Revised Apartheid and of not supporting Israel."
James Ah Koy



A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.
Fisher Ames



I don't believe the government has a knobby.
Bill Allred



We already had success in creating a democratic, national government that is revolutionary and popular. That is how socialism begins, not with decrees.
Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens



Nakhchivan is an Autonomous Government included into the structure of the Azerbaijan Republic.
Heydar Alirza oglu Aliyev



It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.
James Jesus Angleton



What sort of government is it that permits so many children to go to school hungry, without even a morsel of food in their stomachs? It cannot be! It must not be!
Baron Sadao Araki



The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell.
Louis Armstrong



If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government.
Pietro Badoglio



The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution , there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.
Bernard Bailyn



The Government cannot afford to have a country made up entirely of rich people, because rich people pay so little tax that the Government would quickly go bankrupt. This is why Government men always tell us that labor is man's noblest calling. Government needs labor to pay its upkeep.
Russell Baker