Quotes tagged ‘Government’

“Richard Schultz: Do you have contempt for your government? Abbie Hoffman: I think the institutions of our democracy are wonderful things, that right now are populated by some terrible people.”

— Aaron Sorkin, Abbie Hoffman, Sacha Baron Cohen, imdb.com

“Get the government out of my fucking snatch.”

— Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, Roger Drew, Selina Meyer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, imdb.com

“I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.”

— Mike Bloomberg, inc.com

“That is the Beyonce of the government.”

— Susanna Fogel, David Iserson, Morgan, Kate McKinnon, imdb.com

“The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.”

— H. L. Mencken, amazon.com

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable...”

— H. L. Mencken, amazon.com

“All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. If it be aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect the man who is superior only in law against the man who is superior in fact; if it be democratic, then…”

— H. L. Mencken, amazon.com

“It's good fortune for the government that the masses don't think. Otherwise, human society as we know it might cease to exist.”

— Ennio De Concini, Maria Pia Fusco, Wolfgang Reinhardt, Adolf Hitler, Alec Guinness, imdb.com

“Everything they’re telling you is a lie.”

— Erica Beeney, Rupert Wyatt, Rafe, Jonathan Majors, imdb.com

“We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball... What bothers me ins't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and shortsighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually yo…”

— Adam McKay, Charles Randolph, Mark Baum, Steve Carell, imdb.com

“While we were playing on our phones and apps, our democratic institutions seem to have been upended by frat-boy billionaires from California.”

— Canadian Member of Parliament, Noam Cohen, wired.com

“Emma Ren: So, this genocide, the reason you say you fled, what were its origins? Was it state-sponsored? Was the government involved? Caleb: They took over the government. They took over every government. Emma Ren: Who? Caleb: Apex. They said they were man's next evolution, our genetic destiny. Said…”

— Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie, Emma Ren, Sandrine Holt, imdb.com

“Ted: I think this Eddie guy is a front man for an unscrupulous organization. Brad: [sarcastically gasps] Think he works for the government?”

— Clifford Fagin, Dee LaDuke, Ted McGriff & Bradley 'Brad' Taylor, David Lascher & Kelly Brown, imdb.com

“So what am I? Escaped mental patient? Alien that sees in black and white? Government lobotomy experiment? What else was I to think? For a guy who had all the answers, I didn't have the ones that mattered the most.”

— Brandon Camp, Mike Thompson, John Doe, Dominic Purcell, imdb.com

“What I am saying is, we have now what we have always needed, real partnership with the government.”

— Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Hyman Roth, Lee Strasberg, imdb.com

“Ultimately, the truth sinks in that no matter what justification you’re selling yourself, this is not about terrorism. Terrorism is the excuse. This is about economic and social control. And the only thing you’re really protecting is the supremacy of your government.”

— Kieran Fitzgerald, Oliver Stone, Edward Snowden, Edward Snowden, imdb.com

“There’s something going on inside the government that’s really wrong.”

— Kieran Fitzgerald, Oliver Stone, Edward Snowden, Edward Snowden, imdb.com

“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”

— Ronald Reagan, presidency.ucsb.edu

“Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”

— Ronald Reagan, academia.org

“I think you all know that I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.”

— Ronald Reagan, presidency.ucsb.edu