Quotes About Government

Taxing people for having a spare bedroom and forcing them into rent arrears or the possibility of losing homes they have lived in for years has always been a cruel and heartless measure, and so it is good that the Scottish Parliament has been able to step in.

The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating, some day the spark will be generated.

Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.

When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.

In Washington, we've seen enough tax hikes, government takeovers, bailouts, and other big government solutions under Speaker Pelosi's control.

Paul Ryan needs to step down as Speaker of the House.

House Speaker John Boehner and presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understand the art of politics.

We need the speaker to be an institutionalist for the Congress, not to be a defender of the deep state.

As a life-long liberal who has engaged in protests against the government and for civil rights, I am saddened at efforts by some of my fellow liberals to silence commencement speakers with whom they might disagree on some issues.

Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public.'

We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings, from leaving Johannesburg, from belonging to any organization.

The Cabinet makes collective decision and when the Cabinet speaks it speaks with one voice.

My son has autism, and I founded the government relations department at Autism Speaks.

I will run an open government that speaks with honesty, seeks opinion, listens to its citizens.

There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.

There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special.

We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.

If I am elected President, I will end the special interest monopoly in Washington, D.C.

We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation.

The abuse of congressional power for pure partisan gain has become a specialty of the GOP.

We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and it offers as many paths of the true intelligible species and objects of infallible and sole truth as there are individual pedants.

The federal government does not have the authority to tell landowners and ranchers and farmers that they can't farm and ranch their land because someday an endangered species might live there.