Quotes About Government

In 1996, Bill Clinton declared the era of big government over in the State of the Union address.

Union leaders argue that pension shortfalls account for a proportionally tiny portion of governments' financial problems, and by all accounts, there are plenty of parties to blame for the growth in payrolls and obligations.

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

Governments don't want to be the last ones in the digital sphere if their people and businesses are already there. We have to make clear that the free movement of services in the E.U. also applies in the digital sphere. The shortcut is to create a digital union.

The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision.

There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.

Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.

The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level.

I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.

The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.

The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval of the Minnesotas. It creates an important form of insurance.

President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?

Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal government, since no impartial arbiter between them exists.

The government has been repairing Poland's image and its relations with the European Union and the world.

In State of the Union addresses, I always look at the foreign policy and military parts first, which are generally pretty minimal.

We're a country that allowed waterboarding and indefinite detention, and we're a country where the NYPD Intelligence Division has police files on what Muslims think of the State of the Union address.

The SSA's practice of allowing union activity during normal federal government operations is unfair to seniors and taxpayers.

The entire purpose of the State of the Union Address is for the president to outline where we stand as a nation.

In 26 years of delivering babies, I've always been interested in government and the state of the union.

The government union bosses are the most powerful politicians in Springfield.

If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.

The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat.