Government Quotes
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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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Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
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Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do.
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This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
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I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.
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The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.
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Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.
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A liberal was somebody who expected and hoped that government would help the poor - you know, that whole routine. I did not know then and I've learned since that in an area that means a lot to me, free speech, liberals are as bad as many conservatives in trying to censor speech.
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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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Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution.
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The Aldrich Plan is the Wall Street Plan. It means another panic, if necessary, to intimidate the people. Aldrich, paid by the government to represent the people, proposes a plan for the trusts instead.
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The idea that industry is important and therefore must be run by government is one of the ugliest and least American concepts out there.
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No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out the window. If you want work-life balance you just have to accept that you can't be a senior member of a government, or for that matter a senior member of an opposition.
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Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.
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The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice.
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From day one, my mantra has been - and will continue to be - that as a government we were there to serve the people, not the other way around.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.
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The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person.
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Why do people look to the government to fix the economy? It's mind-boggling.
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There are many ways to be influential. You can work for politicians or in government and make a difference. And for young women who are interested in running for office, you just have to decide you're going to follow Eleanor Roosevelt's maxim about growing skin as thick as the hide of a rhinoceros, and you have to be incredibly well-prepared - better prepared [than a man], actually - and you have to figure out how you're going to present yourself, and you have to have a support group around you, because it can be really a brutal experience.
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There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?
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The government endangers us with our own money.
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The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.
