Quotes About Government

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

I think my generation has had an unbelievably easy time profiting from the world that was made for us by our parents and grandparents. We are essentially a rather frivolous generation. The Blair government was my generation's shot at power. It had some good things, but it had some flaws.

I believe I was sent to Washington to fight for and defend our traditional values of smaller government, lower taxes, a strong national defense, and the lives of the unborn.

Dick Armey is an economic conservative. He is not a social conservative. He doesn't like to talk about marriage and about the unborn child, the sanctity of life and things like that. He wants to talk about smaller government.

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by 'unbridled' you mean unregulated.

President Trump has done an extraordinary amount to promote our capitalist origins here at home while simultaneously, and this is how the government should work, protecting American workers from unbridled capitalism by redoing our trade agreements.

High quality, open, transparent, and uncensored data are needed to support democracy.

Do I think it is good policy for the government to own companies? Normally, I'd say 'no.' But in my world, if a firm puts itself in a position that it needs a last minute rescue, and the future is uncertain at best, then the investor who steps into that breach ends up owning the company. Full stop.

Bailouts may have been more tolerable in the early 1990s when they were rare and their use for a failing bank was uncertain. That is no longer the case.

Sometimes momentous government action leaves everyone uncertain about the next move.

Subsidies and bailouts cannot compensate for uncertain or permanently diminished market access.

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.

The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.

When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.

He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

After listening to the radio, I learned what the North Korean government had been telling us about the war was not true. This myth allowed the North to hold the South responsible for the war.