Government quotes
175 government quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Official Secrets
“I have also always believed that censorship when called for should be based on security issues alone not on whether a news report might embarrass a government.”
- From the movie: Richard Jewell
“Where I come from, when the government says someone's guilty, that's how you know they're innocent.”
- From the movie: Us
“Did you know that there's fluoride in the water that the government uses to control our minds?”
- From the movie: Midway
- From the movie: Born Yesterday
“This country will soon to have to decide if the people are going to run the government, or the government is going to run the people.”
- From the movie: Born Yesterday
“When ya steal from the government, you're stealing from yourself, ya dumb ox.”
- From the movie: Mary Queen of Scots
“We are two sisters bound by womanhood. Two princes on the same island. Ruling side by side, we must do so in harmony. And not through a treaty drafted by men lesser than ourselves. I wish us to make a treaty of two queens. I would acknowledge your rightful place on the English throne were you to name me your successor. I hope we might meet in...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Superman and the Mole-Men
- From the movie: Transformers
“You have to accept that there are certain things you won't understand right away.”
- From the movie: Two Moon Junction
“The Delongpre family can claim three governors, two United States senators, three electives of the House of Representatives, a Supreme Court justice, and an ambassador to Chile.”
- From the movie: Hyde Park on Hudson
“- Bertie: They didn't want me as their king.
- FDR: I didn't know they voted for that in England.” - From the TV Series: Parks and Recreation
“My idea of a perfect government is one guy who sits in a small room at a desk, and the only thing he's allowed to decide is who to nuke. The man is chosen based on some kind of IQ test, and maybe also a physical tournament, like a decathlon. And women are brought to him, maybe... when he desires them.”
- From the movie: Cartel Land
“We can escape the Templars. But you cannot escape the government.”
- From the movie: Tulip Fever
“The government stepped in and banned tulip trading. Overnight, the market crashed. Thousands were left destitute. All this stemmed from a love of beauty, a passion for flowers whose lives are even briefer than our own. But while the blooms had faded, the paintings remained.”
- From the movie: The A-Team
“We trusted the system, and it turned on us.”
- From the movie: Juggernaut
- From the movie: The Falcon and the Snowman
“I know a thing or two about predatory behavior, and what once was a legitimate intelligence agency is now being used on weaker governments.”
- From the movie: Cartel Land
“Once we decided to act, the government organized to disarm us. But they have never announced that they are going to disarm the Templars.”
- From the movie: The Post
“- Roger Clark: If the government wins and we're convicted, the Washington Post as we know it will cease to exist.
- Ben Bradlee: Well, if we live in a world where the government could tell us what we can and cannot print, then the Washington Post as we know it has already ceased to exist.” - From the movie: RED 2
“Kids, what happens in the Kremlin stays in the Kremlin.”
- From the movie: The Losers
“I am a lethal killing machine. It was a secret government experiment. They did stuff to me. Spooky stuff... anal stuff. It turned me into a dangerous telekinetic.”
- From the movie: Juggernaut
- From the movie: Simple Men
- From the movie: Cartel Land
“They took off the shirt of the Autodefensas only to put on the shirt of the government. But they continue to be a mafia.”
- From the movie: Lethal Weapon 2
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