Quotes about government
government political all-time-low
It's no coincidence that trust in government is at an all-time low now that the size of government is at an all-time high. Paul Ryan
government years gdp
In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.
government income roles
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive.
government matter belief
The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.
government trying ongoing
Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.
government rights independence
Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
government rights god-and-nature
Our rights come from nature and God, not government.
government pay patient
Either we have the government forcing us and telling us what we have to do, where we have to do it and how much we have to pay for it or we put ourselves in charge - we as consumers, as patients.
government prosperity economics
Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.
government self discipline
Self Government won't work without self discipline. Paul Harvey
government self discipline
If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.
government missing accountability
What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability. Paul Hawken
government communicate homeland-security
And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds. Patrick J. Kennedy
government judging branches
The federal judiciary is unlike the other branches of government. And once confirmed, a federal judge serves for life. And there's no court above the Supreme Court. Patrick Leahy
government justice people
Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has been a guardian of the protections the Constitution provides the American people. She's come to provide balance and a check on government intrusion into our personal privacy and freedoms.
government giving people
I have the highest veneration of those Gentleman, -- but, Sir, give me leave to demand, what right had they to say, We, the People? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the People, instead of We, the States? States are the characteristics, and the soul of the confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one of great consolidated National Government of the people of all the States. Patrick Henry
government liberty ends
Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.
government people tyranny-founding-fathers
[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
government armor pillars
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.
government evil abuse
Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny.
government liberty principles
I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty. Justin Amash
government september-11 scope
After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests. Jurgen Habermas
government media september-11
The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.
government long choices
The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be. Judd Gregg
government able virtue
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery Joseph Pulitzer
government evil nazism
At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent. Joseph Sobran
government judicial-review favors
Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly restrained Congress at all. Instead it has progressively stripped the states of their traditional powers, while allowing federal power to grow unchecked.
government liberty libertarian
The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.
government agents politics
Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.
government brain today
...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain). Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction of the U.S. population today - subtle logicians like you - can grasp such nuances. Too bad. The Constitution wasn't meant to be a brain-twister.
government campaigns voters
Too many voters are already bought -- not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself.
government abortion kitchen
Legalizing abortion to get government out of the bedroom is like legalizing cannibalism to get government out of the kitchen.
government way anarchy
There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power...