Quotes about govern
government needs online
We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent. Marco Rubio
government class ideas
The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried. Marco Rubio
government immigration reform
Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform. Marco Rubio
government iraq perfect
We will have to work around the world with less than ideal governments. The government in Saudi Arabia is not a democracy, but we will have to work with them. The government in Jordan is not perfect, but we will have to work with them. But anti-American dictators like [Bashar] Assad, who help Hezbollah, who helped get those IEDs into Iraq, if they go, I will not shed a tear. Marco Rubio
government rights protect
Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them. Marco Rubio
government discipline people
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
government law people
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of sXXXch, or the right of the people peaceably to XXXemble, and to peXXXion the government for a redress of grievances. Marc Rotenberg
government-intervention currents crisis
What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it. Marc Faber
government issues would-be
If the U.S. Government was a company, the deficit would be $5 trillion because they would have to account by general accepted accounting principles. But actually they encourage government spending, reckless government spending, because the government can issue Treasury bills at extremely low interest rates. Marc Faber
government firsts principles
Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the re-establishment of its original constitution. Samuel Johnson
government long revolution
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. Samuel Johnson
government may revolution
He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government. Samuel Johnson
government long safe
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. Samuel Johnson
government ordinary royalty
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. Samuel Johnson
government law definitions
The court's injected itself in the definition of marriage, deciding whether or not human life is worth protecting, permitting government to transfer private property from one person to another, even interpreting the Constitution on the basis of foreign and international laws. Sam Brownback
government finals ends
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good. Rufus Choate
government georgia honest
I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government Roy Barnes
government office people
After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office. Roy Barnes
government people support
We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die. Rowan Williams
government forever kind
I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it. Ronald Reagan
government people citizens
Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong. Ronald Reagan
government earth program
The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program Ronald Reagan
government issues community
Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Ronald Reagan
government president dollars
Deficits, as I've often said, aren't caused by too little taxing, they're caused by too much spending. Presidents can't appropriate a dollar of tax payers money, only Congressmen can; and Congress is susceptible to all sorts of influences that have nothing to do with good government. Ronald Reagan
government people income
History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government.... When it reaches 25 percent, there comes an increase in lawlessness. Ronald Reagan
government withdrawal taxation
The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it. Ronald Reagan
government people growth
We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the earth. Our government has no power except that granted to it by the people It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed. Ronald Reagan
government people paper
All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people are the government. What we create we ought to be able to control. Ronald Reagan
government might nations
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself. Ronald Reagan
government helping language
There seems to be an increasing awareness of something we Americans have known for some time - that the ten most dangerous words in the English language are "Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." Ronald Reagan
government conservative helping
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." Ronald Reagan
government stupidity interest
If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life. Robertson Davies
government giving-money people
The US, for historical reasons, mistrusts the concept of a welfare state, and this mistrust shows itself nakedly under present US government, which commits uncounted billions of the national wealth to what it calls defence, and is close-fisted in giving money to plans which would ameliorate the grinding poverty of a great part of its people. Quite simply, in Canada you could not get away with that. Robertson Davies