Quotes About Government

And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

I believe we [americans] are strongest as a nation, when the president and Congress work together.

It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people.

The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.

The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people who work for the Pentagon, to talk to the media. They have gagged them from talking to members of Congress.

We're going to make sure that the people who run for office and get elected are the ones who are going to work for the American people.

Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

The Tanzanian government recognised there is a problem: that they don't have enough sterile syringes, that they are being reused probably four or five times each, and that this reuse is a massive contributor to their burden of healthcare.

I often criticized what President Bush did, but President Obama is Bush's spending on steroids.

You think Bill Gates would have dropped out of Harvard and toiled away creating Microsoft if he thought the government was going to take most of the company? Or Steve Jobs - drop out of Stanford to create Apple?

We have a responsibility to be responsible stewards of tax dollars.

As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.

Government has not been good about being good stewards of policy.

In practice, presidents have typically tended to think of themselves not just as stewards for their party, but also of the presidency itself - preserving the full scope of its constitutional power for their successors is part of their job.

Effective stewardship of the public finances has to be at the heart of everything we do.

When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.

Every time the liberals pass a bill - I don't care what it involves - they stick criminal sanctions on it. They don't feel there is any way people are going to keep a law unless they can put them in jail.

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.

Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.

We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.

During my seven years and eight months as chief Cabinet secretary, I noticed that when policies are slow to move forward, it's usually because of bureaucrats' sectionalism and a penchant for sticking with precedents.