Government Quotes

As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.

What is good for Alaska is good for the country. Transferring power from the federal government to the states provides opportunity to all states, not just Alaska.

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is the federal government.

The Chief Whip's job is trying to make sure that the Government - and MPs elected as part of the governing party - deliver the promises that they were elected on. That's a healthy part of the democratic process.

No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice.

But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem.

Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt.

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.

The government itself cannot create jobs. Jobs are created by business people and entrepreneurs.

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.

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.