Quotes About Government Involvement

#1. The shadow that comes with postmodernism is a profound self-involvement. We lose all perspective on the collective endeavors that have made the extraordinarily lives we live possible.

James M. Fallows

#2. Combining internal drive and determination with positive external support was key to my recovery.

Amy Rankin

#3. I proclaim publicly that I favor ending government involvement in education.

Marshall Fritz

#4. I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.

George Soros

#5. I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

Frederick W. Smith

#6. The Tunisian blogger and activist Sami Ben Gharbia has written passionately about how U.S. government involvement in grassroots digital spaces can endanger those who are already vulnerable to accusations by nasty regimes of acting as foreign agents.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#7. Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

Benito Mussolini

#8. A lot of people say Jerry Lee Lewis done wrong, but that has yet to be proven in the eyes of God.

Jerry Lee Lewis

#9. Democracy is government by the people, for the people. Without the responsibility of the people, and without the involvement of the people - all you have left is GOVERNMENT.

Christina Engela

#10. When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!

Edward Hopper

#11. She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty.

Ernestine Rose

#12. We have evidence that a number of Bahrainis who oppose our government are being trained in Syria. I have seen the files and we have notified the Syrian authorities, but they deny any involvement.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#13. You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

Hillary Clinton

#14. A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

Harry Browne

#15. The minority must have involvement in society. You can have different cultural practices that you accept. But if you are going to adopt democracy in government, then the government itself must allow the minority to be heard.

Sheila Jackson Lee

#16. It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em. You knew what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D.

Bill Gates

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

Milton Friedman

#18. We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.

Rick Perry

#19. A good eye cream is really important when you are traveling, busy and stressed-that's when the dark puffy circles can get you.

Kate Winslet

#20. A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

Ice-T

#21. While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary.

Steve Largent

#22. There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.

Confucius

#23. Bones, sinking like stones, all that we've fought for
Homes, places we've grown, all of us are done for
And we live in a beautiful world
Yeah we do, yeah we do

Coldplay

#24. The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to church; a place made remote - by agreed untruth and procedural complexity, and by tedium itself - from the risk of intense public involvement.

Shirley Hazzard

#25. [The government involvement in the economy] is so overwhelming and beyond anything we have ever seen, that we risk moving this country away from a government of the people to a government of the regulators.

Tom J. Donohue

#26. I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.

Mark Cuban

#27. The only reason for a government service is precisely to provide financial support for an operation that is otherwise unsustainable, or else there would be no point in the government's involvement at all.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#28. Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

Dinesh D'Souza

#29. With composition, parts can't be shared with other objects. The life of the part is completely within the life span of the whole.

Michael Jesse Chonoles

#30. American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances

Harry Reid

#31. People in Eastern Washington should be confident in knowing that the government will not come and seize their property or farm land. Legislation is needed to correct this decision and restore the principle of having limited government involvement.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#32. Initiative and referendum make government more responsive to its citizens, neutralize the power of the special interests and stimulate public involvement in state issues.

George W. Bush

#33. Be true to yourself, be kind to yourself, read and learn about everything that interests you, and keep away from people who bring you down.

Steve Maraboli

#34. I'm a real 'go, go' person ... I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside.

Shelley Long