Famous Quotes
- Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.
- Jim DeMint on Government
- Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
- Wendell Phillips on Government
- Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.
- Chris Christie on Government
- Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
- Ronald Reagan on Government
- Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.
- Andrew Cuomo on Government
- Truth is the glue that holds government together.
- Gerald R. Ford on Government
- Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.
- Paul Tsongas on Government
- Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
- Henry David Thoreau on Government
- Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.
- Thomas Frank on Government
- Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
- Richard M. Nixon on Government
- Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.
- Marco Rubio on Government
- Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.
- Georgios A. Papandreou on Government
- Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.
- Marco Rubio on Government
- Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.
- William Lyon Mackenzie King on Government
- Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
- Ralph Nader on Government
- Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.
- Jesse Jackson on Government
- Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.
- Bob Woodward on Government
- War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
- James Madison on Government
- Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
- Robert Orben on Government
- Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
- Bob Woodward on Government
- We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.
- Colin Powell on Government
- We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.
- Alan Dershowitz on Government
- We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger on Government
- We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.
- Jay Weatherill on Government
- We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.
- Paul Ryan on Government
- We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.
- Eliot Spitzer on Government
- We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
- Andrew Jackson on Government
- We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
- Ayn Rand on Government
- We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.
- James McGreevey on Government
- We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
- George Washington on Government
- We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.
- Scott Walker on Government
- We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?
- Thomas Frank on Government
- We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
- Zachary Quinto on Government
- We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.
- Paul Ryan on Government
- We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.
- Rick Perry on Government
- We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.
- Mitt Romney on Government
- We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.
- Paul Ryan on Government
- We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.
- Paul Ryan on Government
- We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.
- Evan Davis on Government
- We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.
- Theresa May on Government
- We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.
- Marco Rubio on Government
- We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
- Barbara Jordan on Government
- We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation.
- Marco Rubio on Government
- We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
- Vladimir Putin on Government
- We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
- Rand Paul on Government
- We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.
- Marco Rubio on Government
- We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.
- Mehmet Oz on Government
- We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
- Colin Powell on Government
- We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.
- Sandra Day O'Connor on Government
- We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I don't - that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. It's insane and it's unsustainable.
- Marco Rubio on Government
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