Quotes About Government

It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.

There never was a democracy yet where the people didn't vote themselves into oblivion.

My observation on most people in national governments is that they have very little interest in and very little knowledge of the multinational institutions.

We must stand firm against the Left's nationalisation obsession.

R&D has been an obsession in Europe for many, many years. There is this magical number which many governments aspire to do, and that is to invest at least three percent of GDP in research and development. When you look at the number, it's a composite of private and public investment in R&D.

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

We've never been a party to obstruct for obstruction sake.

Obstruction of justice requires a corrupt intent.

Obstruction of Congress in our work is a crime.

The Mueller investigation failed to find any evidence to support the big lie that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government and failed miserably to prove any obstruction.

Especially for NRA members, it was obvious from the get-go that Obama believes he is above any constitutional restraints.

Obamacare's terrifyingly cumbersome, competition-hostile apparatus for controlling medical costs is one of its most obvious flaws.

Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.

As a general rule, the United States government is run by lawyers who occasionally take advice from economists. Others interested in helping the lawyers out need not apply.

I have confidence in the responsibility of those who occupy a seat in the legislature.

It's hard enough to find out about the things the universe prefers to keep hidden without our government, which somebody you know must have voted for, covering up what has already been found. Sometimes, of course, it hides things to save its own neck and sometimes seemingly just for the hell of it.

The Under-secretary of Understanding.

Liberty is not a license for chaos.

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.

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in the twenty-first century, with the era of traditional empires and colonies long since behind us, the word "nationalist" has become a label almost always employed to lend prestige to the behavior of people who tend to agree with everything their government says, have no other aim but to curry favor with those in power, and lack the courage to stand up to authority.

As in 1917, the drift towards authoritarian government under Putin was enabled by the weakness of the middle classes and public institutions in post-Soviet Russia. Subjected

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.