Government Quotes
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A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
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The influence I would hope to have is to create an environment where we're not singling Americans out - that we are creating opportunities for all Americans. Not saying, 'I'm going to funnel money into your city so that you're completely dependent on government.
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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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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 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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I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working.
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When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.
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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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Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.
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There's huge opportunities to continue to improve efficiency in the way the government operates and improve the way government provides services to its citizens.
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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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A government that says what it means, and means what it says.
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American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.
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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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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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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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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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National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
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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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Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
