Quotes About Government

The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.

It is vital that government leaders and financial leaders take heed and broaden their horizons, working to ensure that all citizens have dignified work, education, and healthcare.

We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the pollution of our waters.

No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions

The important aspect shouldn't be whose administration it is, the important aspect should be how does the state of Wisconsin work, what can we do to move Wisconsin forward.

I think the American public has gone from really almost white-hot anger in 2010 to an anxiety knowing their government needs to work.

Power corrupts and there is way too much corrupted power. Stand up and monitor the government that is supposed to work for us. That's what the Tea Party represents.

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective.

The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.

The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.

As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do.

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything done in the morning: We're government workers.

Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?

There is no other planning for freedom and general welfare than to let the market system work.

We cannot tax the same people we expect to create jobs. That is a recipe for keeping people out of work.

In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?

Governments never supply prosperity. At best, they can facilitate it, by allowing the free enterprise system to work. Usually they suppress it.

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles in our system of government

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work

The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.