Quotes About Government

It is right that the influence of the Government should be known in every humble home as the guardian of frugal comfort and content, and a defense against unjust exactions, and the unearned tribute persistently coveted by the selfish and designing. It is right that efficiency and honesty in public service should not be sacrificed to partisan greed; and it is right that the suffrage of our people should be pure and free.

Neither the discontent of party friends, nor the allurements constantly offered of confirmations of appointees conditions upon the avowal that suspensions have been made on party grounds alone, nor the threat proposed in the resolutions now before the Senate that no confirmations will be made unless the demands of that body are complied with, are sufficient to discourage or deter me from following in the way which I am convinced leads to better government for the people.

I believe the most important benefit that I can confer on the country by my presidency is to insist upon the entire independence of the executive and legislative branches of the government, and compel the members of the legislative branch to see that they have responsibilities of their own, grave and well-defined, which their official oaths bind them sacredly to perform.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.

Les parece de lo más normal apoyar a tiranos y golpes de estado, como si los gobernantes de otras naciones fueran meras piezas de sus jueguitos geopolíticos. El comportamiento de sus policías es más propio de un estado dictatorial que de un país que cacarea la libertad como su valor más preciado. Sus políticas llevan a la proliferación del caos, del odio, de la intolerancia.

Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.

You don't know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don't know that the rod, discipline, violence, the state and government can only be sustained because of you and because of your lack of socially creative powers that develop order within liberty!

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

Dejemos pues la razón a los filósofos, pero no exijamos que intervenga demasiado en el gobierno de los hombres. No con la razón, sino a pesar de ella, se han creado sentimientos tales como el honor, la abnegación, la fe religiosa, el amor a la gloria y a la patria, que han sido hasta ahora los grandes resortes de todas las civilizaciones.

The functions of governments necessarily increase in proportion as the indifference and helplessness of the citizens grow.

The destinies of peoples are determined by their character and not by their government.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes reminded us, it is a 'less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part.

Byron Wien, for decades one of the most influential voices on Wall Street, taught Israel how to understand macroeconomic questions like the difference between gross national product and gross domestic product. The government had switched the leading economic indicator from GNP to GDP, Wien explained to Israel, as a way to make it seem that the economy was growing faster—official sleight of hand understood by very few.

Selective paternalism, for those on low incomes or for other groups needing state assistance, is perhaps even worse than general paternalism, since the minority are denied the opportunity to overturn the rule democratically. The

Thatcher began the privatization of the most precious part of Britain's social commons, the National Health Service, through what her economic advisers called the 'micro-politics of privatization'. The idea was that the government should gradually cut resources for a popular service so as to undermine faith in its capacity to deliver, leading to acceptance of

signed into law in 1955 as the Limited-Profit Housing Companies Act.

További szerencse, bár természetes adottság, hogy ellenzékünknek nincs programja, célja mindössze annyi, mint mindig minden ellenzéknek: benyomni néhány emberét a kormányba.

Una mayoría abrumadora de mexicanos cree con fe de carbonero que la propiedad pública del petróleo o el monopolio gubernamental de la energía eléctrica son pilares de la integridad nacional, ejes de la nación y la nacionalidad. Es la convicción, por ejemplo, del gobierno electo el 1 de julio de 2018.

El discurso populista es por excelencia el del movimiento bueno contra el gobierno malo.

Los movimientos populistas se nutren del descrédito de los partidos políticos y de la ineficacia de los gobiernos. Diría más: del descrédito de la política y de los políticos.

Lo característico de los movimientos populistas es introducir nuevas clientelas al erario público. Por ello terminan con frecuencia en crisis fiscales que se llevan todo lo ganado.