Quotes about govern
government eggs long
To bring about a genuine political realignment, Republicans must kill the Government Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs - the very Goose they have fought so hard and long to possess. Jeb Bush
government wells knows
If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well. Jerry Lewis
government hands president
The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China. Jennifer Granholm
government long people
It's that Romney is taking advantage of the government's 'free stuff,' too, and has been profiting from it handsomely for a long, long time - even as he rails about the 'free stuff' that the government provides other people.
government people united-states
Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people from the government. Jeff Cooper
government voice complaining
Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it. George Will
government matter judgment
No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.
government
We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.
government order punishment
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.
government people citizens
Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?
government self europe
The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of individuals' lives. This is done in the name of equality. People are to be conscripted into one large cohort, everyone equal (although not equal in status or power to the governing class) in their status as wards of a self-aggrandizing government.
government ideas presidential
Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?... Besides, liberty, although very important, is not the only value.
government voters responsible
Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.
government america reform
America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.
government distribution-of-wealth bigs
Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.
government choices groups
Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.
government political politics
I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.
government people doe
What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.
government suffering politics
The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.
government years important
Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.
government fire broken
A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it. George S. Patton
government league abuse
The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language. Jefferson Davis
government class rights
Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a time when none denied it. I hope the time may come again, when a better comprehension of the theory of our Government, and the inalienable rights of the people of the States, will prevent any one from denying that each State is a Sovereign, and thus may reclaim the grants which it has made to any agent whomsoever.
government people ends
Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.
government president vote
I would vote for you for President but I'm against big government. Jeff Ross
government impunity
All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity. George Bernard Shaw
government insulting public-opinion
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
government class long
Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.
government regulation way
Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation? Gale Norton
government preparation attention
The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments. Fredrik Bajer
government evil attention
Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain? Frederick William Faber
government mexican citizens
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. Elton Gallegly
government long world
I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government. Jawaharlal Nehru