Quotes About Government

Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.

We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.

I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.

We'll keep sending more and more conservatives to Washington, and we'll eventually get these bills passed. But don't be afraid to pass good, strong, conservative legislation.

I am a firm believer that federal agencies exist to administer laws passed by Congress, as intended.

Democracy passes into despotism.

The Knesset is the parliament that passes the most laws in the world. It's a disaster for the business sector.

Americans are fed up with how things are going in the country right now. They see more job losses, rising debt and plummeting home sales. They feel let down by a government that passes one 2,000-page, trillion-dollar law after another instead of focusing on addressing the problems Americans worry about every day.

Congress should live by the same laws it passes on to the rest of the nation.

Not passing Obamacare won't bankrupt America; passing it will.

In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.

I can't think of anything right now that could be more damaging for our economy than passing and putting into effect and implementing Obamacare.

man lived in societies for thousands of years before he knew of the State

But the spirit of the time was not to appeal to a government as soon as a new need made itself felt. It was, on the contrary, to take the initiative yourself, to unite, to join forces, to federate; to create an agreement, large or small, numerous or restricted, which fulfilled the new need.

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.

In a democracy, citizens have to be self-disciplined, or the country goes down, defeated from within by moral rot.

Back in the old days it was considered normal to hand your two-month old baby to a nanny or some local lady with a houseful of brats. At the most, people kept a child until pre-school and sometimes pre-pre-school if there was a government program in place—Head Start or some such that did little besides destroying the concept of motherhood.

There was a time not so long ago when you couldn't get into Malawi unless you could slide a Coke bottle between your leg and your jeans. You had to stick the bottle in at the waistband and under the watchful gaze of the Malawi police, move it between the denim and your pelvis and down your inside leg until it popped out through the leghole near your foot. The government claimed that it was to protect the country from the moral decline caused by tight jeans.

Asking government to report inflation is like asking mafia to report on crime.

If suffering through four years of hellishly misguided big government is the price we pay for true reform, it may in the end be worth it.

Outside interests, from labor unions to large corporations, are influencing and distorting our government in the search for favorable policies.

We have focused on the buyers of influence (those outside special interests), but paid little heed to the sellers of influence—bureaucrats and politicians.

The assumption is that we need to protect politicians from outside influences. But how about protecting ourselves from the politicians?