Quotes about govern
government people institutions
Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions. Cal Thomas
government people soul
No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.
government looks want
If taxpayers want to keep more of the money they earn, they must also work to become less dependent on a government check. We look to government too often and to ourselves not enough.
government people giving
I am not robbed by people who have more money than me. I am robbed by a government that wants to penalize my industry and give increasing portions of what I earn to people who do not emulate my principles, morals and ethics.
government wish doe
Does the U.S. Constitution stand for anything in an era of government excess? Can that founding document, which is supposed to restrain the power and reach of a centralized federal government, slow down the juggernaut of czars, health insurance overhaul and anything else this administration and Congress wish to do that is not in the Constitution?
government entrepreneur independence
Government aid impedes success and creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create success and independence.
government cost answers
The worst thing the federal government could do is to increase the size, reach and cost of government. If government failed in its response to the hurricane, the answer is not more inefficient government.
government people parent
Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
government people use
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich. C. Northcote Parkinson
government paris democracy
The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage. C. L. R. James
government land knowing
People in Eastern Washington should be confident in knowing that the government will not come and seize their property or farm land. Legislation is needed to correct this decision and restore the principle of having limited government involvement. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
government dancing singing
I had - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas. So the government was financing dramatic groups and amateur dramatics and stuff like that. Catherine Zeta-Jones
government law choices
Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters of personal choice. Carl Hiaasen
governance issue positive push quick top
We are positive about this review, but we will be very quick to push the issue of governance to the top of the agenda.
government hope stand surprised
We are going to stand up to this. We hope the government responds, but we will not be surprised if the government does not respond.
governing guaranteed people period
When you've got this many people maneuvering, it eliminates the period of governing that used to be guaranteed between elections. Larry Sabato
government obedience knows
Let them obey that knows not how to rule. William Shakespeare
governed
I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore.
government health public term title trust
What public health really is is a trust. That's why I used the term 'Betrayal of Trust' as the title of my book. It's a trust between the government and the people. Laurie Garrett
government views medicine
Nobody cares that Mitt Romney is rich. It's Romney's inability to understand the institutional advantage that he gains from the government’s tax code largesse, that’s a little offensive to people, especially considering Romney's view on anyone else who looks to the government for things like, I don't know, food and medicine. Jon Stewart
government drunk people
Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today. Kurt Vonnegut
government abuse ordinary
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority. John Roberts
government matter way
Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible. Charley Reese
government cities people
Washington, of course, aside from being one of the most mismanaged, crime-ridden cities on the planet, is a place where 535 federal legislators and about 38,000 lobbyists work at confiscating and redistributing the incomes of the American people.
government want constitution
Make sure the government treats others the same as you would want the government to treat you. ...Once you consent to the government ignoring the Constitution, you deny yourself the protection of the Constitution.
government cotton way
If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.
government ideas attention
The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these days is clearly unconstitutional. The original idea, as expressed by James Madison, was that states would do 95 percent of the governing. Today, they are little more than administrative subdivisions of the central empire.
government should limited-government
When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.
government political culture
Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers. This growing partnership between business and government is a destructive force, undermining not just our economy and our political system, but the very foundations of culture. Charles Koch
government favors cronyism
To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.
government two people
The government is largely influenced by people who advocate corporate welfare and advocate these policies that create this two-tiered society.
government people effort
Most companies want free enterprise in general because that produces better goods and services and makes people's lives better, but they don't want it in their business. They want protection from competition, they want subsidies, they want the government to pick winners and losers, and they want to be picked as winners, and that's what we're opposing, and that's what drives my whole efforts in policy, and in the political arena.
government political competition
The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.