Government Quotes

So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.

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.

I think we're probably more unified than ever before because we're in a battle for survival. Not only for survival as the Republican Party, but survival of the check and balance system in our government.

But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

We have been waiting for you so that we could turn over the government.

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.

For all our current troubles, Americans are still the hardest working, most innovative people on the face of the earth. By trusting the American people, instead of government, we'll continue to surprise and inspire the world.

Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.