Quotes About Government

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

Good news. President Bush is creating thousands of new jobs. Unfortunately, all of them are at the White House.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?

If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam.

The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.

My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.

In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they do to you? They tax you more. So they penalize you for good behavior.

When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

Very good laws may be ill timed.

A good king is a public servant.

We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

We're the highest taxed nation in the world. When I finish the plan, we'll be among the lower taxed, which is very good. I'd like to be the lowest, but you can't be the lowest.