Government Quotes
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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I know what the counterterrorism feels like because I was there. But I also operated within limits. And within the United States government, we've decided long ago that there are limits on what we're going to do in the war against terrorism.
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What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.
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I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.
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I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.
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A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.
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I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again.
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Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.
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If we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then, I think that we have to act and we will take them out. We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.
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There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.
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If you are born into a family below the national median income, we provide you with an additional $500, and for every contribution made to a child's account below the national median income, we match it dollar for dollar - the federal government will.
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Microeconomics: The study of who has the money and how I can get my hands on it.Macroeconomics: The study of which government agency has the gun, and how we can get our hands on it.
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Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest star, and the usual cast.
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I think we have lost track of a core Republican principle of limited government and balancing budgets and restraining federal spending. We have got to change the system.
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The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
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So let me get this straight. Government can't track illegals and out of date visas, but they know who you called this morning?
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions.
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Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.
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It's a violation of federal law for an officer or an employee of the United States government to make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding the amount we've appropriated.
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There is great anger, ... ... here is a government which is meant to be fighting terrorists doing deals with terrorists.
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If the general government should persist in the measures now threatened, there must be war.
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Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.
