Government Quotes
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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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So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.
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I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working.
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All of what the government said is lies upon lies.
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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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We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.
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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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The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person.
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I have always felt that the real purpose of government is to enhance the lives of people and that a leader can best do that by restraining government in most cases instead of enlarging it at every opportunity.
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This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.
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I want to use my position of influence to change the laws of the land to the benefit of the women of Trinidad and Tobago, divide the economic pie more evenly and appoint more women to positions within the government.
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A government that says what it means, and means what it says.
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History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.
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The government is, in fact, urging you to pray. That's simply not government's job.
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When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.
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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
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Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.
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A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
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Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.
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As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
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As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.
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Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
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How much further beyond basic research the role of the government should be, you could have a really good debate about it. Almost nobody would say it's zero. But that's where at least we need the private sector to play a big role.
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Rather than concede to the state of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my government in any matter however unimportant, I would see you, and you, and you, and you, and every man, woman and child in the state, dead and buried. This means war.
