28 Best Government Quotes

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. - Elon Musk

The government is lagging behind the curve on this one, and that's probably for the best. – Rick

I'm so sick of Congress I could vomit. – Josh Lyman

There are two things in the world you never want to let people see how you make 'em: laws and sausages. – Leo McGarry

The monarchy is a tool of government. It is a calling, not a choice. – Tommy Lascelles

We've been chasing a ghost. – Colonel

It's better to be a pirate than a government dog! – Dola

You're a government agent. The truth is your business. Now start managing it. – Annie Hughes

He's a giant, metal, eating machine! – Kent Mansley

Let's go. We've got a giant to find. – Kent Mansley

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill

There is no such thing as a good tax. – Winston Churchill

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. – Abraham Lincoln

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. – Abraham Lincoln

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is to be hoped that the normal balance of executive and legislative authority may be wholly adequate to meet the unprecedented task before us. But it may be that an unprecedented demand and need for undelayed action may call for temporary departure from that normal balance of public procedure. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people. – V

This country needs more than a building right now. It needs hope. – Chancellor Sutler

Fear became the ultimate tool of this government. – V

I don't understand. Where does all this come from? How do you get funding for something like this? – David Levinson

We have top men working on it right now. – Major Eaton

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. – Theodore Roosevelt

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin

We have to be a government for all New Zealanders. – Jacinda Ardern

I see the government as an ‘enabler’, not a ‘regulator’. – Narendra Modi

The focus should be on 'Minimum Government, Maximum Governance'. – Narendra Modi