Quotes About Government

Shakespeare examines how democracy is built.

The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

I have not been in Washington very long, but I've been there long enough to be shocked by how antiquated some of our laws have become.

Federal employees are not rewarded for performance or excellence or results but, rather, for showing up, and often times, they don't even do that.

I built a company; now, I would like to shrink a government and grow an economy.

Democrats have bad ideas and Republicans have no ideas.

In Asia, democracy has been less advanced than elsewhere. And many of these countries haven't done too badly.

My resume is lean enough that I don't have the added baggage that is not necessary to be able to be successful in government.

If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

I think that I, because of student government and because of working in Baltimore, knew how to be creative with very little resources.

It's very important to the conservative movement to be rid of the Ex-Im Bank.

As American citizens, if you believe all banks were bailed out, you would hate banks. I would, too.

On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.

The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.

I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.

In Australia you're not allowed to go down to the beach and eat anything from the rocks. You just can't do it - help yourself to mussels and things like that because there's hardly any left and the government has now legislated against it.

I think we all have a right to bear arms, whichever amendment that is.

It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.

I have been vociferous against government on things like beef. I used to eat beef, but I've stopped. That doesn't mean others shouldn't eat beef.

For me, it all begins with faith; it begins with what matters most, and I try and put what I believe to be moral truth first. My philosophy of government second. And my politics third.

We live in an 'eventocracy'. This is a new form of democracy where there is nothing greater than the event. Any policy announcement has so many events that people have begun to believe in the arrival of an avatar.

When the government says we're going to build something on behalf of the community, we do it.

What we're trying to do every day is make policy and work on behalf of the American people.

The perspective of people who truly believe that abortion is wrong. I understand that, I'm empathetic to that, I get it. But the place where I think we need to come to some kind of an understanding is that... you have your ability to have your own beliefs but the government doesn't play a role in that.