Quotes About Government

how does a state manage to achieve, all at once, the highest basket of gas, sales, and income taxes, yet rate nearly dead last in roads and highways, or school performance tests, and have the nation's greatest number of billionaires, and one-sixth of America's welfare recipients, and the largest percentage of any state population below the poverty line?

I am not a dictator, I have only simplified democracy.

Hoy corresponde a los poderes públicos de los estados de derecho esforzarse en poner las condiciones que hagan posible para todo individuo conquistar la felicidad.

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

Ronald Reagan just signed the new tax law. But I think he was in Hollywood too long. He signed it, 'Best wishes, Ronald Reagan.'

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

We have to consider who is going to be the best prime minister to take on a "one nation" agenda.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.

If you want to learn about the whole government and how it operates, the Appropriations Committee is the best place to learn it.

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

It has become more and more obvious that there is one political party in America, and that is The Business Party.

In business, people are held accountable. In Washington, nobody is held accountable. In business, people are judged on results. In Washington, people are measured by their ability to get reelected.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.

Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.

You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes.

The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.