- 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
- We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.
- Stephen Harper on Government
- We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.
- Rick Santelli on Government
- We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain on Government
- We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.
- Tim Scott on Government
- We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government.
- Lucy Powell on Government
- We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.
- Glenn Beck on Government
- We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
- Wendell Phillips on Government
- We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill on Government
- We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
- Richard M. Nixon on Government
- We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.
- Vladimir Zhirinovsky on Government
- We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.
- George Lincoln Rockwell on Government
- We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
- Henry A. Wallace on Government
- We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Government
- We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
- Carly Fiorina on Government
- We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
- Jeff Miller on Government
- We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.
- Tim Scott on Government
- We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
- Paul Ryan on Government
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