Quotes About Government

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation of everything. That country is become a great, mighty, and splendid nation; not because their government is strong and energetic, but, sir, because liberty is its direct end and foundation.

No government can maintain the public's confidence if it is outwardly split.

Every time a government minister or spokesman lauds Magna Carta, let us boo or hiss. Shame them. And let us celebrate what it really means to our history: the ability of an emerging class to make demands against the state for new liberties and rights.

Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.

Our way of life, our government defines the way America is. I mean, it's not luck.

The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state.

The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.

Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down.

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

Marriage is a religious and state issue.

Clinton vetoed the repeal of the marriage tax. I guess Bill figures if he's married, then we all have to suffer.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage.

You don't have a right to a house, you don't have a right to a job, you don't have a right to medical care.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies.

It's absurd we remain the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people and paid family and medical leave.

Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?

Hurricane Katrina reiterated the need for [access to] medical records, ... ... But there's going to be a lot more needed than $4 million.

Electricity should not be banned, it just needs much better government regulation and understanding by the medical profession of the full range of toxicity that it presents to the human.