Quotes about govern
government america people
You're not supposed to be admitted to America if you're likely to be a charge on the public - if you're going to need government aid to take care of yourself ... It [2006 immigration bill] failed because it did not do what it said it would do... End the illegality first. Then we can wrestle with how to treat compassionately people who have been in America for a long time. Jeff Sessions
government years numbers
I want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP [gross national product] over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens. Grover Norquist
government issues looks
Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone. Grover Norquist
government gdp focus
The question is: How do we reduce spending from 25% of GDP, which is where Obama put us? The focus is on total government spending. Can we bring it down, in a reasonable and politically acceptable way? That's what the Paul Ryan plan does. It puts us on a gradual reform path to reducing the size of government. Grover Norquist
government law people
Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty. Grover Norquist
government goal focus
The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease. Grover Norquist
government people cost
One of the reasons some of the advocates of ever larger government and more government intrusiveness get nervous about discussions of the actual cost of government is that they fear if the people had a discussion about what government costs, the true cost of taxes, that they might not want as much government as they are presently getting. Grover Norquist
government regulation taxes
Less government, less regulation, lower taxes. Grover Norquist
government self guy
My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. Because that person doesn't need the goddamn government for anything, Grover Norquist
government want size
I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub. Grover Norquist
government presidential hateful
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government. Grover Cleveland
government federal-government
Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again. Grover Cleveland
government elements may
The admitted right of a government to prevent the influx of elements hostile to its internal peace and security may not be questioned, even where there is not treaty stipulation on the subject. Grover Cleveland
government offending people
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously avoid in their political action, as well as in the discharge of their official duty, offending by a display of obtrusive partisanship their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials. Grover Cleveland
government waste citizens
Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen. Grover Cleveland
government people support
The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people. Grover Cleveland
government people political
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor. Grover Cleveland
government office people
In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office. Grover Cleveland
government justice people
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves. Grover Cleveland
government people support
Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people. Grover Cleveland
government world realistic
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals. Golda Meir
government vain wells
It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society. Gideon Welles
government knowing greatest-fear
The greatest fears that governments have are freedom of speech and exposing the corruptness, the ineptitude, and the double dealing going on that they don’t want the public knowing about. Gerald Celente
government gossip benefits
May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what's going on. [pause] I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on. Harold Wilson
government house want
The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties. Harold Wilson
government people community
Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress. Holly Near
government sinn-fein
We are not going into government with Sinn Fein Ian Paisley
government ira ulster
I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government. Ian Paisley
government people battle
In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that the people have a chance. Ian Bremmer
government people corporations
The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power. Ian Bremmer
government behaviour damage
All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour. Iain Duncan Smith
government views security-systems
The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government - one that leaves the way wide open for people to favor, discuss, advocate, or incite causes and doctrines however obnoxious and antagonistic such views may be to the rest of us. Hugo Black
government law religion
We repeat and again reaffirm that neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person 'to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion.' Neither can constitutionally pass laws or impose requirements which aid all religions as against nonbelievers, and neither can aid those religions based on a belief in the existence of God as against those religions founded on different beliefs. Hugo Black