Government Quotes

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role.

The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.

You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.

It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes.

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.

Republican governors are leading the way in helping the private sector create new jobs, reforming government and getting our economy back on track.

In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.