Quotes About Government

A good marriage is really good after serving together in Washington, D.C.

The presidency is a serious job that requires sound judgment and good ideas, and there's no doubt in my mind that Jeb Bush has the experience and the character to be a great president.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves.

A new poll shows only 3 percent strongly approve of the job Congress is doing, with a margin of error of 4 percent, so it's possible that "less than no one" thinks they're doing a good job.

The White House says that the unemployment rate is good news because it means more people are looking for jobs. More good news like that, and everyone at the White House will be looking for jobs.

You know, it shows how old I am. I can remember the good old days when the president picked the Supreme Court justices instead of the other way around.

Not federal government's job to do good deeds.

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.

Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.

Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail.

If God is in fact separated from the government, then we can never possibly have a godly government. There's no way for America to be good if she's not godly.

The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news.

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.

Jeb Bush is very good on immigration, he's very good on education. He's a smart guy.

The good news is that we really do think that ... on the immigration issue, that we will, before summer, have comprehensive immigration reform.

There's a very good reason that governments aren't supposed to compete with private-enterprise companies. Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

Tax dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.

The King had been a good friend of the government and the people of South Africa and we all mourn his passing with our brothers and sisters in Saudi Arabia.

Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.