Government Quotes

We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that p…

The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive…

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyo…

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important syste…

In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. B…

You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc…

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the governme…

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run.

The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the co…

There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It…

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

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.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this togeth…