Quotes About Government

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

The government itself cannot create jobs. Jobs are created by business people and entrepreneurs.

The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment.

The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.

The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out of the pockets of some people for the benefit of others.

The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets.

Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.

We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.

In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.

The same government that brought you urban renewal is likely to make an even worse mess of suburban renewal.

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster.

We have put in so much entitlement into our government that we really have spoiled our citizenryand said, you don't want the jobs that are available.

I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose.