- Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.
- Norman Schwarzkopf on Government
- Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.
- Sandra Day O'Connor on Government
- He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
- Confucius on Government
- Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.
- Benjamin Carson on Government
- Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.
- Eliot Spitzer on Government
- Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
- William E. Gladstone on Government
- Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.
- Chris Christie on Government
- History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
- Vladimir Putin on Government
- History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?
- Jon Meacham on Government
- History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
- Thomas Jefferson on Government
- Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.
- Louise Slaughter on Government
- How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
- Henry David Thoreau on Government
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