Quotes About Government

I never saw a bureaucracy produce a single barrel of oil.

Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.

So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK.

To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts.

I have a lot of Chinese fans who buy my movies on the street and watch them, and I'm OK with it. I'm not OK with it in other places, but if the government's going to censor me, then I want the people to see it in any way they can.

The Kashmir problem is a very old one and has been a major challenge for all governments.

The License Raj in India was a time when, to set up an industry, you needed a license. Which made the government an omnipresent and sort of all-pervasive authority.

I learned a couple things. The government can do to you whatever they want. They can break the laws, federal laws, as they see fit... You can't turn laws on and off as you deem fit.

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

I think it's absolutely extraordinary that any Conservative MP considered even for one minute installing Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street.

I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.

One of the things government should be around for is to deal with catastrophes. It should do that well. To me, that's a government function, and we shouldn't be playing political games with it.

Of one thing I am certain: we are foolish if we think we will achieve change by sending the same crowd of people back to run our government again and again.

I remember at one time there were 44 mining MPs.

I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one man's idea of American freedom in exile.

Federal government has forced a one-size-fits-all model on our education system.

Millennials - who will soon be a full one-third of American adults - may be especially ready to become engaged in politics with a candidate who wants to give them a government that will leave them alone and get its finances in order so that they don't inherit an economic collapse.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Republicans, Democrats, libertarians, and independents all agree on only one thing - our national politicians are bought.

Only one thing can save this country, and that's to get a handle on this deficit and debt issue.

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

We should be open to a discussion on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. I don't know how that manifests itself, but I'm looking to get elected president of the United States. I just want to let people know I have an open mind about how we might - how government might - interject itself in a lot of the problems we have.

The U.S. Embassy in Havana may be reopened, but outside its gates, an open society with more freedom for its people is still absent.