Government Quotes
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The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.
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Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.
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There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.
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It's obvious that a lot of Tea Party members tend to be elderly. You've seen that famous sign, 'Tell the government to keep its hands off my Medicare.' And I think as long as the government does keep its hands off their Medicare, they're fine with talking about low taxes. But once they start to realize that the Republicans really do want to not just cut Medicare, but essentially abolish it, you know, I just think those people are not going to be part of the Tea Party. They're going to be over with Occupy Wall Street.
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The government should not be in control of the private sector. You create opportunity, you create business, you create development, you hand it to the investor and start creating something new.
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In our system of government, the president is not supposed to be above the law. He is not a king; his word is not the law.
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The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.
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Thomas Jefferson despised newspapers, with considerable justification. They printed libels and slanders about him that persist to the present day. Yet he famously said that if he had to choose between government without newspapers and newspapers without government, he would cheerfully choose to live in a land with newspapers (even not very good ones) and no government.
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It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.
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European government is a clear expression I still use, you need time, but step by step, as in the Austrian case, the European Commission takes a political decision and behaves like a growing government.
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Take the government away. Let the parents take care of their kids.
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The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.
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Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.
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In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.
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Man should regard lower animals as being in the same dependent condition as minors under his government ... For a man to torture an animal whose life God has put into his hands, is a disgrace to his species.
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We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.
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Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals.
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I believe in small government and people taking care of themselves.
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Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.
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It's simply not sensible for the government to say there's no link. What I think is surprising is that the government denies there's any link - but the government's handling of this has been rather inept politically from start to finish.
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It's pretty clear that we will need measures to accelerate the conversion to new products. Governments can either make measures even worse for cigarettes or do something different on these new zero-risk products to show consumers they are different. I think they should do both.
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Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It should be good for the wealth of the nation, and that is when it acts as little as possible upon the labor that produces it and when it consumes as little as possible. It should be good for the public security, and that is when it protects as much as possible, provided that the protection does not cost more than it brings in.... It is in losing their powers of action that governments improve. Each time that the governed gain space there is progress.
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When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We are divided. The result is a divide and conquer scenario, in which we negotiate as adversaries, first with government and then with one another about our relative worth, while the conqueror observes and continues to rule.
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Have the government get out of the way.
