Quotes About Government

You know, I definitely have an inclination to work in the public sector.

I am a psychologically disabled person and it's difficult for me to get and hold down a job. When I don't work people accuse me of being lazy, taking advantage of government money

I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working.

I don't want to be the president of the United States. I do want to work with the governors across the country to make the states more pivotal, more powerful, as they should be.

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.

Do you work for the government, any government?" "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community.

The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.

Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography. Other photographers did commercial work, or worked for the government.

Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.

So how's that hopey changey stuff working out for ya?

The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.

I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.

Too many Americans are out of work, and our debt is out of control.

You can't get to a balanced budget and begin to pay down debt and thus create jobs in this country if you don't have specific plans to make it work.

Secrecy doesn't attach to particular parties; it attaches to power. All of the bull work is in place for whomever succeeds. That's my concern.

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.

No bill works if it doesn't work in a zip code where somebody lives.

I will work with anyone that wants to get America back on track and make sure that the government is the servant and no longer the master.

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.