Government quotes

“- Peter Howard: We are citizens of an American nation! And our rights are being threatened by a tyrant three thousand miles away!
- Benjamin Martin: Would you tell me please, Mr. Howard, why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?”

Joey D. Vieira - Peter Howard
Mel Gibson - Benjamin Martin

“Washington, and all of us, are gravely concerned over this growing contempt for taxes. Agents are herewith directed to discourage non-compliance through investigation, prosecution, and other statutory actions within our broad authority.”
James Ray - Commissioner

“There's a cancer... in the system, the whole system has a cancer and I'm being punished because I resist. But somebody has to resist, just somebody has to resist.”

Sean Penn - Samuel J. Bicke

“I can say without fear of contradiction, that under no circumstances, and at no time has that current administration expended any public money whatsoever for the purchase of the fluffy flower print toilet paper.”
George Wilson - Jim Richardson

“There is evil ever around fundamental system of government. Quite incidental!”
Madonna - Eva Perón

“This whole damn system works on a bluff, you know that. Once it's blown, we go back to a constitutional government. And you'll be selling shoes.”

James Ray - Commissioner

“When the system's threatened, they'll do anything to defend it.”

Susan Sarandon - Melanie

“I don't like finding out about people employed by this government via the news, unless they've just died.”

Peter Capaldi - Malcolm Tucker

“- Jamie: I blame the government.
- Nina: What?
- Jamie: The government.
- Nina: What's the government got to do with anything?
- Jamie: I hate the bastards.”
Alan Rickman - Jamie
Juliet Stevenson - Nina

“- Lightning McQueen: Wow, this organic fuel is great! Why haven't I heard about it before?
- Fillmore: It's a conspiracy, man! The oil companies got a grip on the government. They're feeding us a bunch of lies, man!”
Owen Wilson - Lightning McQueen
George Carlin - Fillmore

“Taxes are the lifeblood of this nation. Collecting taxes is a thankless job. As officers and agents of the Internal Revenue Service, we are more than just an arm of the government. We are the heart and hands of the United States Treasury. There are, however, an increasing number who willfully disregard their obligation, resist the payment of...” (continue)(continue reading)
James Ray - Commissioner

“- Skip: Man, one thing I can't figure out. People be out of work everywhere and the government just be throwing money away!
- Kirby: That's Uncle Sam for you, son. Money to burn.”
Chris Tucker - Skip
Keith David - Kirby

“Seems like the government's got more interest in a dead man than a live one.”
Henry Fonda - Tom Joad

“The government said recently that we're cutting back spending, yet NASA blew $28 million to develop a fountain pen that writes upside down in zero gravity. The Russians solved the same problem with a 5-cent pencil... and after two cases of vodka, it's still writing.”
Robin Williams - Tom Dobbs

“No matter what system of government we have, there will always be leaders and always be followers.”

Gary Cooper - Longfellow Deeds

“If the patient were part of an HMO then I could understand your dilemma. With those babies we get paid not to perform medical procedures. It's a little like when the government pays the farmers not to grow crops. But with insurance we get paid to perform medical procedures.”
Albert Brooks - Dr. Butz

“I don't love the government, but I do love my country.”
Toni Edgar-Bruce - Lady Houston

“I'm in the government and I don't even trust it. You don't have to believe in your government to be a good American. You just have to believe in your country.”
James Adomian - George W. Bush

“An elected legislature can trample a man's rights as easily as a king can.”
Mel Gibson - Benjamin Martin

“- Whistler: I want peace on earth and goodwill toward men.
- Mr. Bernard Abbott: We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
- Bishop: You're just gonna have to try.
- Mr. Bernard Abbott: All right, I'll see what I can do.
- Whistler: Thank you very much. That's all I ask.”

David Strathairn - Whistler
James Earl Jones - Mr. Bernard Abbott
Robert Redford - Bishop

“- Maubee: Come on, I got us a ride here.
- Xavier Quinn: Yes, man. In a stolen car.
- Maubee: It's not stolen. It's the governor's - bought by the sweat and taxes of hard-working people! Besides, what he need it for? Him sleeping.
- Xavier Quinn: That's a very moving story.”
Robert Townsend - Maubee
Denzel Washington - Xavier Quinn

“We're both orphans, James. But while your parents had the luxury of dying in a climbing accident, mine survived the British betrayal and Stalin's execution squads. My father couldn't let himself or my mother live with the shame. MI6 figured I was too young to remember. And in one of life's little ironies, the son went to work for the government...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sean Bean - Alec Trevelyan

“- Cpl. Jefferson: The Pentagon called, sir.
- Col. John T. Hall: Pentagon? How did they get my number?”
Cheryl Francis Harrington - Cpl. Jefferson
Dan Aykroyd - Col. John T. Hall

“It is not there to protect religion from the grasp of government but to protect our government from the grasp of religious fanaticism.”

Joan Allen - Laine Hanson

“- Foreman Marv Loach: United States Government? That must mean something big is happening here.
- Kent Mansley: No, Marv. Big things happen in big places, and the sooner I file my report, the sooner I can get back to them.”
James Gammon - Foreman Marv Loach
Christopher McDonald - Kent Mansley