Government Quotes

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.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.

I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

So actually we didn't have any contacts with UFO organizations. It was all strictly government.

In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.

Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.