Famous Quotes
- Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
- Dale Dauten on Government
- But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.
- Marco Rubio on Government
- But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.
- Scott Walker on Government
- But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.
- Tony Campolo on Government
- But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
- Jonathan Mayhew on Government
- But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.
- James Q. Wilson on Government
- But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
- Carly Fiorina on Government
- But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
- Maynard James Keenan on Government
- But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.
- Marco Rubio on Government
- But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
- Lysander Spooner on Government
- But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.
- Jeb Bush on Government
- By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
- John Maynard Keynes on Government
- By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
- Albert Camus on Government
- By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.
- Mitt Romney on Government
- By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.
- John Podhoretz on Government
- Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.
- Stephen Harper on Government
- Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.
- Rick Santorum on Government
- Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.
- Richard Lamm on Government
- Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
- Richard Lamm on Government
- Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.
- Tony Campolo on Government
- Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.
- Sarah Palin on Government
- Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
- Grover Cleveland on Government
- Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.
- Thomas Frank on Government
- Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
- Thomas Jefferson on Government
- Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.
- Rick Perry on Government
- Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax government transfer payments have become less progressive.
- Paul Ryan on Government
- Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.
- Hugo Chavez on Government
- Corporations often partner with government after natural disasters, as many companies did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As a rule, however, long-term civic/corporate partnerships are still rare .But this need not remain the status quo, as many opportunities are available for such partnerships.
- Simon Mainwaring on Government
- Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.
- Robert Taft on Government
- Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.
- Hugo Black on Government
- Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
- James Russell Lowell on Government
- Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
- George Bernard Shaw on Government
- Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
- Jorge Luis Borges on Government
- Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
- Woodrow Wilson on Government
- Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- H. L. Mencken on Government
- Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
- James Russell Lowell on Government
- Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
- Sydney J. Harris on Government
- Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
- Aung San Suu Kyi on Government
- Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
- Ronald Reagan on Government
- Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Government
- Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
- Plato on Government
- Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
- George McGovern on Government
- Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'
- William J. Clinton on Government
- Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.
- Mitt Romney on Government
- Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.
- Mitt Romney on Government
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
- Aristotle on Government
- Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
- Tom Robbins on Government
- Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
- Dalton Trumbo on Government
- Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
- James Madison on Government
- Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?
- Paul Ryan on Government
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