Quotes About Government

Elections are so crazy.

Our country has laws to protect whistleblowers and to protect the security of our elections, both of which are fundamental to our democracy.

If people think that local elections are won or lost on local education matters, that isn't happening.

Well, free elections are the foundation of our democracy.

Democracy is about electoral competition.

There are elements of Dodd-Frank that clearly need to be curtailed.

It's definitely not the case that every child living in poverty is eligible for free school lunches.

The attorney general is the only one who can authorize what's called an emergency FISA.

It takes four private-sector jobs to support every public-sector employee.

I really don't think that the public-sector employees should be unionized.

It is important to take time out every year to honor state employees.

The government is a terrible employer, and that goes for national service jobs as well.

We do not need $1 allowed for the president to enact amnesty.

It's very hard to keep an uncrackable encryption if you share it with the government.

There is an unarguable downside to unbreakable encryption.

People want smart energy policy.

We in government need to ensure that the law is enforced.

The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.

The policies being enforced are more important than the agency enforcing them.

Listen, in the same way that politics and government allow people to engage in large issues, media does the same.

Obama was the first American president to see technology as an engine to improve lives and accelerate society more quickly than any government body could.

Washington is not the engine of the economy.

We need more leaders in Washington who will do more with less - and that's how we engineer real change.

Our job in Congress is to serve the American people, and not enrich ourselves with special taxpayer-funded benefits.