Government Quotes
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Today, we have got more excuses from the government.
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Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment.
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With the change of government this matter was not further pursued and the tax deductible limit has remained at $6,000.
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I believe Government should encourage competition, NOT prop up the weak when the going gets tough.
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We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.
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I stand with the Navajo Nation and call upon the U.S. Government to do what is right and clean up this mess.
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The federal government has a responsibility to address climate change. The federal government can continue to regulate corporations, tax polluters and incentivize the use of renewable forms of energy.
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That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government.
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If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government. It destroys the whole notion of individual rights. The Constitution recognizes that man has an inherent right, not bestowed by the state or laws, to personal dignity, including the right to be free of cruelty. It applies to all human beings, not just in America - even those designated as 'unlawful enemy combatants.' If you make this exception the whole Constitution crumbles.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.
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When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
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A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government to command or prompt them in all matters of joint concern - who expect to have everything done for them, except what can be made an affair of mere habit and routine - have their faculties only half developed; their education is defective in one of its most important branches.
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Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.
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While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.
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What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.
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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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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.
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The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.
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It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.
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When the government decided that in the light of an increased security threat what London really needed was a smaller police force.
