Government Quotes
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If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.
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I've said that we're going to produce real results for the American people because so many Americans feel left out and left behind, they think the economy has failed them, they think our government has failed, they can't stand the gridlock and dysfunction in our politics, and I'm determined to produce more good jobs with rising incomes, and deal with all of the concerns that families have about education, college affordability, student debt.
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We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.
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Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.
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The relationship between government and art must necessarily be a delicate one. It would not be appropriate for the government to try to define what is good or what is true or what is beautiful. But government can provide nourishment to the ground within which these ideas spring forth from the seeds of inspiration within the human mind.
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Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We - the American people - we are the solution.
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The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
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To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.
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And I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe.
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I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.
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Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.
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The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried out, and tossed out if necessary, with more new ideas brought in - a trial and error system.
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It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United States goes and takes action there on behalf of the Iraqi government. You've got Iran coming in and saying we're going to stand with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, so now we're aligning ourselves with Iran, and if we do air strikes, becoming de facto air force for them.
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On Hillary Clinton's side, she believes she's unaccountable to the American people. She favors these old ideas about government, these - these centralized, top down solutions from Washington that keep insiders in the know and give them influence, but regular Americans have no voice.
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I am from an F.D.R. liberal-Democratic family. With proximity to government, I have become more libertarian.
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You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play.
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Government that is open and honest will always be able to withstand the light of day.
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The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.
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Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.
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The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.
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It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.
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And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.
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Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.
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Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.