Government Quotes
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Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.
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I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.
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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.
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I'm all for Workers' Rights and stuff like that, that's fair enough. But imagine if you were working in a pub in some real rough-arse of inner-city North Dublin, ...and you're built like, say, me. And you've got to go up to some bloke who looks like he's been lured down from a mountain with a hunk of meat, and he's just trying to enjoy his 'post-fight' cigarette, and you've got to tell him to put it out. Somewhere in the back of your head you're going to be thinking "Oh, thank you so much to the government for looking after my health." Somewhere in the back of your head, where your nose is about to be.
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The government has no business in the decisions that women make with their families in accordance with their faith, with medical advice. And I will stand up for that right.
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I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'
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Over the year,s the government launched more than one 'war on corruption,' and they all failed. Why? Because they all started from the bottom up.
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Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.
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In terms of the Patriot Act, and all the other things he has pledged he would do, such as transparency in government, Barack Obama has reneged on his promises.
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I'm a typical Delhi girl. Professional parents, nuclear family. My father was in the navy. I've spent my whole life in government accommodation, and it's been lovely.
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Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not only into the three branches of the national government but also separated as between the whole national government, on the one hand, and the states and the people on the other.
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Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?
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We are deeply pleased that the government has agreed to the smooth implementation of the cease-fire agreement.
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We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die.
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Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government control.
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It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.
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The U.S.A. economic policy and practice have been largely influenced by this thought that people shall own property in their own right and in order to be strong enough to control their own government.
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We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.
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It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.
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The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.
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The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.
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Now that Britain has voted to leave, I think the country deserves to have a leader who believes in Britain outside the European Union and who also has experience at the highest level of government.
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And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.
