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Quotes About Government

Kellyanne Conway is one of the most dishonest humans ever to grace the office she holds.
~ Jon Lovett
When you go to the mayor's office and you want something done, then that person should have the authority to do it for you. And if the person can't do it for you, then you should have the ability to hold that person responsible.
~ Francis X. Suarez
Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.
~ Geena Davis
I see the job of attorney general as the single most important legal office in the country when you can't trust the federal government.
~ Zephyr Teachout
Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.
~ Sidney Blumenthal
President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office.
~ Tom Allen
The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.
~ Virgil Goode
I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.
~ Martin Sheen
Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
~ Jessica Mitford
I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution.
~ Tom DeLay
I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.
~ Cofer Black
Dan Donovan was the district attorney at one point who could not indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo, who choked Eric Garner on video, for the whole country to watch, for the whole world to watch. And he actually, immediately after that, won a seat in Congress. He beat a Democrat to get into Congress.
~ Linda Sarsour
The reason we need formal government guidance from the chief medical officer is to empower parents.
~ Matt Hancock
My mom is a bureaucrat officer.
~ Manini Mishra
If I weren't an actor, I would be an IAS or IPS officer.
~ Kirron Kher
Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I actually went out and tried to hire the very best Cabinet officers that I could, understanding they can make help make the hard calls for the budget position that we're in.
~ Bill Haslam
India needs honest bureaucrats; most officers in the system are corrupt.
~ Jagapathi Babu
Every one of our congressional offices, every day, is under attack.
~ Darrell Issa
The government is a very large constructor. They have schools, colleges, hospitals and courts, offices. We are trying to influence the public works department to adopt green buildings.
~ Jamshyd Godrej
America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.
~ Matt Taibbi
I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington. It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States.
~ Glenn Greenwald
Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled 'unclassified' or 'limited official use' and deal with mundane matters.
~ Elliott Abrams
I have met Aborigines younger than me who used to hide every time anyone official came round their camp for fear of being taken away.
~ Richard Flanagan