Quotes about govern
government focus priorities
Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be. Marsha Blackburn
government skills answers
It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no. Marquis de Sade
government texas debt
Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work. Mark McKinnon
government taxation regulation
I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.
government elderly people
Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future. Mark Foley
government political trying
There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon. Mario Monti
government vote individual
As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament.
government aspiration credible
My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.
government long population
A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won't allow it. Noam Chomsky
government people used
Governments don't control people like they used to.
government people united-states
In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.
government trying way
American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas. Nikki Haley
government unity reform
My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms. Nicos Anastasiades
government hands balance
It would be a very odd chancellor of any UK government that insisted on a course of action that cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds, that blew a massive hole in their balance of payments and, because assets and liabilities go hand in hand, would potentially leave the rest of the UK shouldering the entirety of UK debt. Nicola Sturgeon
government generations
Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand. Nick Nolte
government media
The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power. Matt Drudge
government giving choices
Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity. Joseph Joubert
government israel years
I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left . . . Joseph Smith, Jr.
government community needs
There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community. Kjell Magne Bondevik
government sea people
I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
government taxation coercion
Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation. Murray Rothbard
government black age
If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and . . . try freedom.
government gold dollars
If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant money-supplier, becomes free to create money costlessly and at will. As a result, this 'inflation' of the money supply destroys the value of the dollar or pound, drives up prices, cripples economic calculation, and hobbles and seriously damages the workings of the market economy.
government people want
Who wants good people in government? Good people should be in the private sector. Helping us out, helping themselves out in the private sector. We want schmoes in government. We want people who can't find the doorknob. Why waste productive people, as well as looting the taxpayer?
government thieves gang
Government is a gang of thieves writ large.
government gold commodity
Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium.
government cost gauges
The costs of government are bound to be much higher than those of the free market. . .The State cannot calculate well and therefore cannot gauge its costs accurately.
government answers libertarian
What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.
government leader lobbyists
While big-business leaders and firms can be highly productive, servants of consumers in a free market economy, they are also all too often, seekers after subsidies, contracts, privileges, or cartels furnished by big government. Often, business lobbyists and leaders are the sparkplugs for the statist, interventionist system.
government natural currency
The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.
government like-you reason
Throughout history governments have been chronically short of revenue. The reason should be clear: unlike you and me, governments do not produce useful goods and services that they can sell on the market; governments, rather than producing and selling services, live parasitically off the market and off society.
government subsidies coercion
Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation.
government operations consumers
All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.