Quotes about government
government data perspective
I've been doing lot of work, and hopefully will bring it to fruition in a way people can see it, really understanding - this is going to sound funny, but what does government really do, how is it really funded, and what measures exist to evaluate how it does at what it does? No forecast, no policy, no prediction, just a realistic perspective on what is. Call it like a "10k for government" we've been working on with a website, with additional data. Steve Ballmer
government abuse glare
Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur. Stephen Hawking
government limits initiative
It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to which an aggressive and hostile federal government can encroach upon legitimate provincial jurisdiction. Stephen Harper
government should-have matter
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.
government people minorities
If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.
government leader mergers
The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.
government goal target
I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.
government water navy
The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of American nuclear submarines passing though Canadian waters without obtaining the permission of, or even notifying, the Canadian government.
government states handle
We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.
government people priorities
Restoring accountability will be one of the major priorities of our new government. Accountability is what ordinary Canadians, working Canadians, those people who pay their bills, pay their taxes, expect from their political leaders.
government vibrancy libertarian
In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed." If the public authorities can be outgunned or bribed, the vibrancy of the private sector can be pathological. Stephen Holmes
government people wealth
The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector. Ronald Reagan
government doe done
If you owe the bank $10,000 you have a problem. If you owe the bank $10,000,000 they have a problem. After all is said and done, more is said than done. Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
government democracy breaking-down
Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.
government citizens return
The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.
government years trying
Those who advocate more and more government regulation have been experimenting for 40 years, trying to create an economic system in which everyone can somehow be made more prosperous by the toil of someone else.
government done poverty
Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.
government taxpayers ends
We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government.
government people limits
When government gets too big, freedom is lost. Government is supposed to be the servant. But when a government can tax the people with no limit or restraint on what the government can take, then the government has become the master.
government decision stronger
Every dollar the federal government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us, will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free.
government three unemployment
For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.
government answers problem
Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem.
government actors politics
You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.
government promise politics
There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.
government doctors dollars
I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.
government politics too-much
I don't have too much time for fiction.
government administration politics
This administration is totally colorblind.
government curiosity intellectual
Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?
government people world
Almost all the worlds' constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which We the People tell the government what it is allowed to do. We the People are free.
government facts knows
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
government definitions criticize
There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism. Ron Paul
government law people
What you are inferring is, If we were to legalise heroin tomorrow everybody would use heroin. How many people here would start using heroin? I bet nobody would. Oh yeah, I need the government to take care of me. I don't want to use heroin, so I need these laws.
government bottles american-voters
American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. ...The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.