Quotes About Government

I am an elected official; I was not elected by the Right.

I encourage all young people who are interested in government to try and apply to work for a congressman or some other elected official because you get very good experience.

The nature of constitutional delegations of power is that they entitle the empowered official to do certain things that other people can't do.

Well, Trump campaign is not an actor. Trump campaign is the official campaign of the president.

Enacted in 1994, the first of the MSRB rules bars employees of firms that underwrite state and municipal bonds from donating to any official seeking federal office who has any role in giving business to bond firms.

I'm hard-wired to view everything that Albany does through the lens of a local town, city, county official.

If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.

We should all laugh more at our elected officials - it's good for us and good for them.

The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.

The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.

When millions of Americans are tightening their belts, folks have the right to expect their elected officials to do the same.

I don't want to put words in Geithner's mouth, but I think he is generally against the revolving door of government officials taking jobs with companies that they have overseen or in roles that involve lobbying. At minimum, I'm pretty sure he felt that way about himself.

Numerically, half of our high-ranking government officials should be women, and half should be men. And yet the division between the sexes is highly disproportionate in favour of men.

The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.

In many respects, you can argue Dodd-Frank isn't even law. It's a license for unaccountable, un-elected officials to make law.

One of the reasons the American public holds unelected government officials in such low esteem is that they are never held accountable for their failures.

Traditionally, in America, we have accountability as kind of a key feature of each branch of government in some way. So, you know, you obviously have to run for office. Or if you're a judge, you've got to be nominated by political officials and so on.

My job is to advise politicians, elected officials, and government ministries of the best way to deal with important issues, both localized, national, and the grand challenges facing humanity.

When you look at every government, they're our elected officials, and you have to have some form of respect for them.

Our nation is grounded on the rule of law, and the public must be assured that government officials administer the law fairly.

I do believe that it's very frequent that officials from foreign governments will meet with members of Congress. They will meet with folks associated with campaigns. That's not aberrational here in Washington.

Every year, at every level of government and in every corner of our nation, elected officials are confronted with difficult decisions. The right answers aren't always obvious, and the effects aren't always clear.

When I moved to Cleveland, defense research was laying the foundations for the Internet. The Apollo program was just about to put a man on the moon - and it was Neil Armstrong, from right here in Ohio. The future felt limitless. But today, our government is broken.

This year, we are going to take our government out of the hands of corporate special interests and put it back into the hands of Ohio families - where it belongs.