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Quotes About Government

How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern.
~ James T. Walsh
The future belongs to socialism
~ Erich Honecker
Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.
~ Ron Paul
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
~ Peter Ustinov
A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
~ Barbara Jordan
Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.
~ John Goodman
The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.
~ Tom Vilsack
Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future.
~ Peter George Peterson
the highest priority for any government concerned with its own future and the peace of the world community ought to be the facilities it provides for the care and nurturance of young children.
~ Eda LeShan
A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.
~ Jonathan Sacks
I think we need to make sure that we are putting Social Security on a sustainable path. It's absolutely something that the federal government is going to be involved in, in the future.
~ Ken Buck
The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
~ Andrew Johnson
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
~ Thomas Sowell
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
~ Grover Norquist
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control
~ William Binney
The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.
~ Bob Riley
The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.
~ Dixie Lee Ray
In Burma, our main goal in amending the constitution is not to phase out the military from politics. Our main point is to put the constitution in line with international standards and norms.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.
~ Ludwig von Mises
My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.
~ Charles Edison
The Bolivian government has promised to guarantee autonomy in the framework of unity, legality, and with the goal of equalizing the different regions of Bolivia. It's right there in the constitution.
~ Evo Morales
America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
~ Sylvia Earle
Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.
~ Grover Norquist