Government Quotes
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The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it abhors government waste. It believes strongly in fiscal responsibility such as balanced budgets. It is pro-economic growth. It is concerned about the environment. It is intolerant of people on welfare who disdain the notion of work. But it wants poor kids to have school lunches and it wants to spend money to have good schools. In sum, most Americans are sensible, good-hearted, and prudent. The issue, then, is whether there is a political party that can welcome them home.
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All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.
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Stop focusing on Trump so much and focus on your government. Make sure you elect the people that you want in your neighborhoods, in your cities, in your state.
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For a country to have a great writer … is like having another government. That’s why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.
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We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.
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The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.
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We want to learn from this effort so that every level of government is prepared when the next emergency occurs, ... follows long established precedence from similar investigations under both Democratic and Republican majorities.
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What Reagan ushered in was a skepticism toward government solutions to every problem. I don't think that has changed
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In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.
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I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.
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Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
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Tom has done an outstanding job as a chairman of our Government Reform Committee, ... He is a deliberate thinker with a knack for details. So I'm anxious to see the good work that he will do.
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I think it's perfectly consistent to say that I want my government to be operating for all faiths and all peoples, including atheists and agnostics, while also insisting that there are values tha tinform my politics that are appropriate to talk about.
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I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.
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Given the huge engineering and other challenges, much of the reconstruction would have to be done by private companies ... there is no government capacity for doing such things.
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Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.
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I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the publics trust.
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When this government [Chiang Kaishek's] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life.
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As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.
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Whenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what their motives are.
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A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.
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I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.
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Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.
