Government Quotes

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.

This mass destructive weapons were sold to Iraqi government by the United States. And Mr. Rumsfeld has been one of the man responsible for this sale, for this bargain, for this market.

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.

The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.

The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.

Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.

I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program.

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these decisions they make.

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

We need a government that is what we are at our best. Smart, efficient, pragmatic and compassionate.