Top 100 Quotes About American Government
#1. The fact that the American government has formally set aside an enormous yearly budget of nearly $75 million to increase cultural exchanges in order to bring about what it calls "regime change" has muddied the waters and complicated American Studies in Iran more than anything else.
Mohammad Marandi
#2. The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.
Norm Dicks
#4. If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government ... The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
Calvin Coolidge
#5. There is in the American Government ... a want of unity ... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey one will so that instead of making steady way the vessel may pursue a devious or zigzag course, and sometimes merely turn round and round in the water.
James Bryce
#6. The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people.
Mike Pence
#7. It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.
William H. Seward
#8. I am ashamed and deeply distressed that American government should have become the chief cause of disillusionment with American principles.
Wendell Berry
#9. The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
William O. Douglas
#10. This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
Henry David Thoreau
#11. I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.
Cindy Sheehan
#12. American government is not dominated by engineers, it is dominated by lawyers. Engineers are interested in substance and building things; lawyers are interested in process and rights and getting the ideology correctly blended. And so there is sort of no really concrete plan for the future.
Peter Thiel
#13. The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
Bernardine Dohrn
#14. Behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments,
Henry David Thoreau
#15. This American government has become very adept at attaching labels to people who defend themselves, so that the general population in America will condone their behavior.
Leonard Peltier
#16. The real struggle between an American government and the people was one of power, which was settled when they designed their Constitution, which conceded the sovereignty of the people when it came to politics, and the sovereignty of the consumer when it came to economics.
Ndabaningi Sithole
#17. I don't trust this [american] government to be regulating corporations. I trust big business to be regulated [by itself] and to be a party to a decent solution.
Ezra Klein
#18. The principal objective of American government at every level should be to
see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#19. I believe I am more conservative than Bob Dole; I believe I am more committed to fundamentally changing American government than Bob Dole.
Phil Gramm
#20. The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.
Jacques Verges
#21. There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.
Bill Bryson
#22. Some segments within the American government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy, and its grips on the Middle East, in order to save the Zionist regime The majority of the American people as well as most nations and politicians around the world agree with this view.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#23. If we become an accomplice to criminal activities by the American government, then we are liable too.
Clive Stafford Smith
#24. Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong'; patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to speak up when these ideals are distorted for personal or political gain. The American government was instituted to be the servant of the people, not our master.
Robert A. Heinlein
#25. I was born in the U.S. Why should anyone who has an unfavorable view of the American government renounce his or her citizenship? Why don't its supporters relinquish their citizenship first?
Mohammad Marandi
#26. This is for one simple reason: each Islamic mosque is dedicated to the overthrow of the American government.
Bryan Fischer
#27. American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.
Ginny Brown-Waite
#28. I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.
George Michael
#29. One person's view is not to be sniffed at. Everybody is entitled to have their view and people are entitled to have a different view from the view the [American] Government has arrived at and they're entitled to express their view.
Amanda Vanstone
#30. The American government is making nuclear weapons like there's no tomorrow.
Emo Philips
#31. I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#32. Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.
Michael Lind
#33. The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
P. J. O'Rourke
#34. No. But then the American Government
whatever branch
has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#35. The Iranian leaders describe the American government exactly the way American analysts describe the Iranian one, as an opaque, factionalized system with competing power centers, over which the president exercises very limited authority.
Ali Khamenei
#36. The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.
Amy Waldman
#37. The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the bosses.
Austin O'Malley
#38. Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.
Noam Chomsky
#39. There is no way to avoid the reality that the American government in the past years has been the most spectacularly hypocrisy-driven government in the world. We rival the Soviet Union in some stages, in some ways, in hypocrisy.
Michael Scheuer
#40. Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.
Mark Foley
#42. As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't.
Mark Falcoff
#43. The American government will be whatever we all make of it.
Megan Smith
#44. How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Henry David Thoreau
#45. We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect.
George Takei
#46. I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.
Ginger Baker
#47. I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
Ferdinand Marcos
#48. The policy of the American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson
#49. I am obligated and I will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the American government. I already paid and I will keep paying whatever taxes I owe based on my time as a U.S. citizen.
Eduardo Saverin
#50. The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children.
Ruth Reichl
#51. In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.
Jeff Goodell
#52. The American government is premised on the theory that if the individual man is to be free, his ideas, his beliefs, his ideology, his philosophy, must be placed beyond the reach of government.
William O. Douglas
#53. The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom.
Evgeny Morozov
#54. The argument starts by accepting that the American government will continue to spend a huge amount of money on income transfers. It then contends that we should take all of that money and give it back to the American people in cash grants. The
Charles Murray
#55. American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead.
Tom Wolfe
#56. A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.
Ian Harris
#57. 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
#58. The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body of forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on.
William Z. Foster
#59. For more than 220 years - from the 1620s to the 1840s - most American schooling was independent of government control, subsidy, and influence. From this educational freedom the American Republic was born.
Marshall Fritz
#60. The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.
John Boehner
#61. One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.
Nelson A. Miles
#62. Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.
Alan Siegel
#63. It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
Rand Paul
#64. Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena.
Joel Salatin
#65. I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
Olivia De Havilland
#66. It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain
#67. To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong.
Isaac Asimov
#68. We need to work to repeal Obamacare and replace it with the kind of health care choices that the American people want. That doesn't include government-run health care.
Marsha Blackburn
#69. American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.
Neil Kinnock
#70. It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of homophobia. Homosexuals have been notoriously persecuted under Fidel's government.
Rachel Kushner
#71. The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of American nuclear submarines passing though Canadian waters without obtaining the permission of, or even notifying, the Canadian government.
Stephen Harper
#72. Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.
John Robert Colombo
#73. We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.
Tim Scott
#74. We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.
Ken Calvert
#75. Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny - and judging from the record of this case not very violent compared to what is available to children on television and in movie theaters today.
Richard Posner
#76. We believe that in times like these we should turn to each other, not on each other. We believe that government has a role to play, not in solving every problem in everybody's life but in helping people help themselves to the American dream. That's what Democrats believe.
Deval Patrick
#77. That's what separates out American democracy from dictators and horrible governments across the world and the reason why that works is that we have a president that can consult with congress before making big decisions. That doesn't just make a unilateral decision to go in for military conflict.
Charles R. Chamberlain
#78. I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.
Ehud Olmert
#79. The average American of today is intellectually so far removed from his forbears that instead of regarding government with apprehension, he is more likely to regard it as a virtual parent, concerned only with protecting and helping him
George Reisman
#80. For all our current troubles, Americans are still the hardest working, most innovative people on the face of the earth. By trusting the American people, instead of government, we'll continue to surprise and inspire the world.
Rob Portman
#81. The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.
Sarah Vowell
#82. They really do feel under attack, rank-and-file officers and much of American police leadership, that they feel they're under attack from the federal government at the highest levels, so that's something we need to understand also, this sense of perception that becomes a reality.
William Bratton
#83. The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The American Dream was about individualism and the opportunity to achieve success without interference from others.
Robert Ringer
#85. The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.
Cynthia McKinney
#86. We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.
Marco Rubio
#87. Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic, expression of Americanism. Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God's help, it will continue to be.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#88. And the other issue is Gore, $4.6 trillion - the single largest expansion of government in American history, from universal preschool, now, to prescriptions to health care - it is Socialism 101.
Sean Hannity
#89. The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.
Taylor Branch
#90. There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.
Zephyr Teachout
#91. Once our country is fully engulfed in a debt crisis, our economy will be torn apart, and every American will be a victim of the federal government's failure to prevent this disaster.
Kevin McCarthy
#92. If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way.
Tony La Russa
#93. When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics.
Lee H. Hamilton
#94. From the ashes of the Triangle Company fire began to rise one of the most dramatic and far-reaching [changes] in American history-one that would...eventually redefine forever the role the government played in the lives of ordinary people.
Ric Burns
#95. I hope every person who reads or hears this will take the time to go back and read the Declaration of Independence. Only by recapturing the spirit of independence can we ensure our government never resembles the one from which the American States declared their separation.
Ron Paul
#96. I hope that the American public understands that we have three levels of government. We have the (unintelligible) the executive, but there's legislative and the judicial, and the legislative obviously need to be just doing their job.
Stockard Channing
#97. In Chicago and across the country, whites looking to achieve the American dream could rely on a legitimate credit system backed by the government. Blacks were herded into the sights of unscrupulous lenders who took them for money and for sport.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#98. I also think that there is a huge failure in the American education system to educate Americans about where we, our system, our government, came from. And to some extent this failure is shared in places like Britain and Canada and Australia.
Michael Scheuer
#99. Most of us are aware of the sacrificial slaughter of Bear Sterns. Some people call it a bailout, but I call it a handout - a government handout to some of the richest people on Earth, paid for by American taxpayers.
Robert Kiyosaki
#100. Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.
Marco Rubio
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