Quotes About Government

I think that Governor Romney needs to talk about the fact that what he tried to do in the state of Massachusetts was him seeing what could be best for his state, but maybe it didn't work out as well.

My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic issue (economies of influence and their effect).

So the first thing in democracy, people must have satisfaction. If you don't have satisfaction, it's not going to work out.

Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we've got the poor people in.

I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.

Usually the president is kind of the initiator of the idea, then Congress makes it work.

In liberal societies we don't typically require citizens to rearrange their activities, their lives, the way they go about their business, to make it easy for the police to do their work.

Government doesn't work. That's the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society.

More taxes, more regulation, more Washington domination, more debt. Those things are not the future for America. They will never work.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!

Here's the problem, and here's what he's going to learn. I do not work for Donald Trump. Come the 20th, Donald Trump works for us. We're the boss.

As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn't work that way.

If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.

Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.

There's never a recession if you work for the government.

We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion.

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.

You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?

Democracy doesn't work unless the public is informed.

If taxpayers want to keep more of the money they earn, they must also work to become less dependent on a government check. We look to government too often and to ourselves not enough.