Government Quotes
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The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.
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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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Why is it so hard to see that when America had high savings, low taxes and minimal government, the economy grew like a week, and today when we have just the opposite, the economy is shrinking.?
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If the small government concept grows, we have fewer dollars leaving our pockets, we have more folks motivated to make a profit.
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We live in a country whose government and many of its people support white supremacy and disintegration of basic human rights.
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Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.
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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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We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.
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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 Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.
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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
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Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.
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I honor businesses for what they do, I honor nonprofits for what they do, I honor government for what it does, and then I invite everyone to the table so that together we can come up with innovative and broad-based solutions that can serve as many people as possible. The fewer or less diverse voices you invite to the table, the smaller and narrower your solution will be and the fewer people it will serve.
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You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.
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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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There's a reason the Chinese government is very concerned about Ai Weiwei. It's because he has all of these ingredients in his life that allow him to attract enormous attention across a very broad spectrum of the population.
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It has been an honor to work in the Barack Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.
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The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.
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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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Every night at dinner, my father would say something about the greatness of the United States - and tell us to make sure the government is there for the next people who come along and need it.
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We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.
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Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences.
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I think the Republican Party is supposed to be the party of less government intrusion.
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Government that is open and honest will always be able to withstand the light of day.
