Government Agent Quotes

#1. The most questionable thing I did was make Superman a government agent. If this had been a Superman story, I'd never have done that - and I know that, because I have a Superman story I want to tell someday. In this story, Batman was the hero, so the world was built around him.

Frank Miller

#2. No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

Nancy Pearcey

#3. Has a control system so perilously close to intelligence that a government agent must be on hand at all times, ready to destroy the machine if it slips over the threshold into consciousness.

Alastair Reynolds

#4. Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

John Taylor Gatto

#5. A high-level government agent was arrested today for selling secrets to Russia. They now have all of the exact locations of our back-to-school headquarters.

David Letterman

#6. In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.

George F. Will

#7. What do you have (talents,idea,contacts,a voice,strength)? God uses what you have to give you what you don't have.

Ikechukwu Joseph

#8. A problem only becomes a problem when we choose to see it as a problem

Robin Sharma

#9. A brick could be used to cook with, as a thickening agent in gravy. But as history proves, the thickest agents work for the government as tax collectors.

Jarod Kintz

#10. The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.

Joseph M. Marshall III

#11. The Constitution's Preamble, its renowned introductory passage, was written by a man with a peg-leg. Which, if you think about it, gives our Constitution hardly a leg to stand on.

Kevin Bleyer

#12. I feel certain that Conservatism is through unless Conservatives can demonstrate and communicate the difference between being concerned with [the unemployed, the sick without medical care, human welfare, etc.] and believing that the federal government is the proper agent for their solution.

Barry M. Goldwater

#13. Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the legislative halls of America and find, if you can, the Government. In the end you will be doomed to confer with the agent, as before.

Voltairine De Cleyre

#14. Government in and of itself is the foremost agent for destroying order and imposing chaos."
"To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war."
"Political theory would be fine in a perfect world, but in an uncertain one, it is a dangerous gamble.

L.K. Samuels

#15. If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. It was as if all the scenes of my life were running through my brain like a pack of dogs running through the streets, dogs running and running, unable to stop even though they were tired.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#17. Experiment or not, the government is always watching. - Felix

Donna Galanti

#18. Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

Joseph Sobran

#19. The source of the government's authority is "the consent of the governed." This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant or agent of the citizens; it means that the government as such has no rights except the rights delegated to it by the citizens for a specific purpose.

Ayn Rand

#20. I see the role of IT as a change agent. It empowers, connects and can bind isolated parts of India and create harmony. IT can join people with governments, bridge the gap between demand and supply, and can bring us closer to knowledge.

Narendra Modi

#21. The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.

Brian Tracy

#22. Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.

Robert Toombs

#23. An Indian Affairs agent said, 'The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?

David Grann

#24. She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life.

John Le Carre

#25. Yes, it is true that beauty is only skin deep, and internal loveliness resonates to the outside; but deep down inside every woman secretly longs to possess the allure of a royal queen.

Terry A. O'Neal

#26. I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#27. Ronald Reagan came from show business. His idea of how the government should help the homeless was like your agent. "We'll try to get you work. But don't bug us about it."

Bill Maher

#28. Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social change, at least for the immediate future, is the corporation.

Tibor Kalman

#29. We may find great relief and inexplicable solace in purposefully looking beyond grief in order to determine the provision made within it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#30. Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal government, since no impartial arbiter between them exists.

Thomas Woods