Quotes about govern
government distribution-of-wealth bigs
Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government. George Will
government choices groups
Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.
government political politics
I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.
government people doe
What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.
government suffering politics
The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.
government years important
Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.
government fire broken
A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it. George S. Patton
government league abuse
The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language. Jefferson Davis
government class rights
Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a time when none denied it. I hope the time may come again, when a better comprehension of the theory of our Government, and the inalienable rights of the people of the States, will prevent any one from denying that each State is a Sovereign, and thus may reclaim the grants which it has made to any agent whomsoever.
government people ends
Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.
government president vote
I would vote for you for President but I'm against big government. Jeff Ross
government office bows
In the highest government office, you have to be ready to bow out at any time, otherwise you are not a free individual anymore. Jean-Claude Juncker
government years justice
In recent years... forces have developed in our government over which we have no control, and these forces have an authoritarian approach to justice - meaning, they tell you what justice is. Jim Garrison
government dollars bonus
To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement. Jim Gibbons
government creating people
The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom. Jim Gerlach
government outsiders progressive
You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force. Jim Hightower
government years people
Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits. Jim Harrison
government long people
It's the nature of government, to build enduring institutions, structures that stay long after their purpose is over. If you pay people to help the poor, you have people who won't be paid if there aren't any poor, so they'll be sure to find some. Jerry Pournelle
government minorities care
If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government. Jerrold Nadler
government democracy blackmail
Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.
government play roles
NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women. Jenny Shipley
government law america
The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "God Bless America." No, no, no, God d*mn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God d*mn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God d*mn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme. Jeremiah Wright
government democracy election
I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term. Jim Bolger
government choices entitlement
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals. Jesse Helms
government america risk
Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk. Jesse Jackson
government alternatives neighbor
A neighbor is a far better and cheaper alternative to government services. Jennifer Pahlka
government needs cant
We cant do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.
government people given
Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if youre one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.
government political election
We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.
government self top-down
He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the state level. The most inspiring part of his legacy to me is his belief in the imperative and duty of self-education on behalf of citizens. Jeffrey Rosen
government surveillance-cameras shopping
Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums, would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.
government
Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to travel. Jeff Flake
government office information
Some information has to remain in the privy of the office of the Prime Minister and the ministers for the proper administration of government. Jean Chretien