Quotes about government
government track support
I've always favoured proposition over opposition. But we will oppose the government when it's off track.We'll support positive suggestions that we'll bring forward and support the government when it's making progress. Jack Layton
government culture crafts
Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them. Irwin Winkler
government people innocence
The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse. Jack Lynch
government ideas doe
But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas. Jack Markell
government
Never ever do business with the government. Be in love with them, never marry them. Jack Ma
government purpose interest
Government grows despite repeated failures to serve the public well because government's purpose no longer is to serve the public. Government now serves primarily the interests of those who work for the government. Jack Kelly
government accountability analysis
The top group of fundraisers for Mr. Obama raised $457,834 for his 2008 campaign - and were approved for federal grants and loans of $11.4 billion, according to the Government Accountability Institute. Selling access to the federal treasury has been a great way for Democrats to raise campaign funds. Since 1989, according to an analysis by Gateway Pundit, big donors have provided $416 million more in direct contributions to Democrats than Republicans.
government judging boards
The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal. Jack Kevorkian
government organization two
We mustn't assume that we are going to deinvent government solely from inside the Beltway or within one or two sessions of Congress. We will do it one step at a time, in one community at a time - at the local level and through local institutions like churches, nonprofit and volunteer organizations and families. Jeb Bush
government suffering host
Government is basically a parasite, and if the host doesn't grow, then government suffers.
government eggs long
To bring about a genuine political realignment, Republicans must kill the Government Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs - the very Goose they have fought so hard and long to possess.
government wells knows
If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well. Jerry Lewis
government hands president
The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China. Jennifer Granholm
government long people
It's that Romney is taking advantage of the government's 'free stuff,' too, and has been profiting from it handsomely for a long, long time - even as he rails about the 'free stuff' that the government provides other people.
government people united-states
Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people from the government. Jeff Cooper
government voice complaining
Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it. George Will
government matter judgment
No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.
government
We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.
government order punishment
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.
government people citizens
Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?
government self europe
The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of individuals' lives. This is done in the name of equality. People are to be conscripted into one large cohort, everyone equal (although not equal in status or power to the governing class) in their status as wards of a self-aggrandizing government.
government ideas presidential
Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?... Besides, liberty, although very important, is not the only value.
government voters responsible
Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.
government america reform
America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.
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.
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.