Government Quotes
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In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.
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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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The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.
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Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
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Don't let the government win.
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We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.
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People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.
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I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
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When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.
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Government . . . is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection.
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I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.
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America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.
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Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.
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My father loved to complain about big business and big government, but we had a solid middle class upbringing. We had good public schools. We had accessible health care. We had our little, you know, one-family house that, you know, he saved up his money, didn't believe in mortgages.
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
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It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government’s or the private sector’s, by printing enough money to pay for it in depreciated dollars.
