Government Quotes

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

I think that when we look out with our underfunded liabilities and our national debt over $14 trillion, I think if we are part of that movement to get our government spending under control, I think that would be a tremendous legacy to leave.

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.

I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don't say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed.

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.

And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.

People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.

Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes.

I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.

When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics.

We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees.

The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.