Quotes About Government

Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.

Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard. to do business.

If the Chinese business community takes the Declaration of Human Rights, core labor standards, and environmental standards seriously, the government of China will take them far more seriously, too.

The ideological foundation of today's business schools is that economic control should be shifted out of government hands into those of financial managers - that is, Wall Street.

For small businesses, regulatory burdens can be overwhelming.

We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.

Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.

We'll be passing tax relief for small business owners and working families across the country.

When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.

Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business.

They think that the cure to big government is to have bigger government... the only effective cure is to reduce the scope of government - get government out of the business.

What is Maximum Governance, Minimum Government? It means government has no business to be in business.

To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

Government should protect people and regulate corporations, not protect corporations and regulate people.

All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.

Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.

If you drive a car, I'll tax the street; if you try to sit, I'll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I'll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.

If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

The minute you hear subsidies, I don't care what, if it's health care, buying cars, the minute you hear subsidies, you have to understand, whatever's going on here, it isn't market forces.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves

If there ever was a time when character mattered, it was in Washington's role in the birth of America. If he had operated with a different set of moral values and a different personal character, America would have had a king or dictator instead of a federal Constitution and representative government.

The King's 1606 patent for Virginia explained that the purpose of their mission to the New World was that: So noble a work may, by the Providence of God, hereafter tend to the glorie of his divine majestie, in propagating of Christian religion to such people as sit in darkness and miserable ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God, and may in time bring the infidels and savages (living in those parts) to human civility and quiet government.20

was ruled on behalf of the king by a shire-reeve whose name became sheriff.