Government Quotes

Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.

I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to step in and set guidelines for how shows should be rated.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.

If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.

It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people.

We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002.

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong.

Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved.

Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.