Quotes About Government

In Washington, particularly, the loyal opposition has a job to be the opposition. But you can't stop there.

My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too.

The government takes the opposition day debates incredibly seriously.

Anti-people policies of the BJP government have made strong opposition a necessity.

We are affectionate BJP and not fascist as termed by the opposition.

If there is not competent Opposition, the government that comes to power won't have anyone to hold them accountable.

The opposition believes that we should allow people to vote without even showing a shred of identification. Canadians disagree.

American diplomats meet with formal government officials, we meet with opposition protesters, not just in Hong Kong or China. This literally happens in every single country in which an American embassy is present.

I've never been an MP in government unfortunately and only know what it's like to be in opposition.

For us, the government of Venezuelan Nicolas Maduro is not a government that allows democratic plurality. It does not allow for there to be a real opposition, and that is not democratic.

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

It's not such a bad thing to bring some naive optimism to Washington.

To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference.

I believe that we need to have a public option.

Hillary Clinton wants to see that all Americans have the right to choose a public option in their health care exchange.

People do not want that public option.

I support offering the public option to members of Congress, and as soon as I'm given the chance, I intend to go on it.

The president does not have the option of choosing which laws he will follow and which he will ignore.

When I turn 55, I'm going to be on Medicare. I can call up and tell them I don't want to be on Medicare, but otherwise, I'll be on Medicare. So they use this kind of automatic enrollment. We give states the option of automatically enrolling those who are eligible.

I am a Medicare-for-all public option proponent.

Of all the liberal resentments during the Obama years, one of the sharpest has been the failure to secure a public insurance option as part of the Affordable Care Act.

Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

Justice is merely incidental to law and order.