Quotes About Governmental intervention

I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do frame a 'do it ourselves' vs. 'what are you doing for us' debate. For the black community, that's a debate that's been raging at least as far back as the W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington philosophical grudge matches.

Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.

There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.

We need sensible gun safety measures. The federal government could do something about this; they could show up.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

People make mistakes. And one of the mistakes that the United States consistently made was that it could intervene and somehow adjust people's governments, especially in the Middle East.

What you must understand is that according to the U.S. government, a parent does not own the rights to care for their own child. Instead, the true responsibility for childcare belongs to the state.

An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention.

What is Maximum Governance, Minimum Government? It means government has no business to be in business.