Quotes about government
government skills-training would-be
It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified. Kim Campbell
government years needs
Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families.
government initiative
Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.
government years effort
For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.
government reform canada
On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.
government people needs
I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.
government way socialism
Carli Fiorina says companies are consolidating because it's the only way to compete with big, corrupt government. "This is how socialism starts." Is that also why she bought Compaq when she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard? Kevin Drum
government-intervention abortion decision
This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life. Kathleen Turner
government carbon carbon-tax
There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead. Julia Gillard
government political islam
Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim. Pat Robertson
government citizens steps
When any civil government steps outside the mandate authorized by God Almighty, then that government does not have any further claim over its citizens.
government years people
I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are at least 10 to 15 years ahead of their governments. P. Chidambaram
government political economic
A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
government important interest
Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests. P. T. Barnum
government safety people
Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people’s money, other people’s safety, other people’s future. P. D. James
government people moral
No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.
government bullshit television
The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit P. J. O'Rourke
government liberty would-be
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
government feel-good feelings
Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
government self average
Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities. ... [G]overnment is wasteful of the nation's resources, immune to common sense and subject to pressure from every half-organized bouquet of assholes. ... [G]overnment is distrustful of and disrespectful toward average Americans while being easily gulled by Americans with money, influence or fame.
government america people
Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we've got the poor people in.
government self numbers
The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that there is something they are all attached to besides self-aggrandizement and our pocketbooks. ... Government is not a machine with parts; it's an organism. When does an intestine quit being an intestine and start becoming an asshole?
government democracies-have democracy
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
government rebellious proposal
Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
government listening honor
Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on? Paul Newman
government realizing madmen
Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency? Mark Hanna
government views way
If we have a food supply that we can't trust, that has enormous implications for the way we view government, for the way we trust business, and for our international trade relations. Marion Nestle
government political all-time-low
It's no coincidence that trust in government is at an all-time low now that the size of government is at an all-time high. Paul Ryan
government years gdp
In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.
government income roles
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive.
government matter belief
The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.
government trying ongoing
Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.
government rights independence
Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.