Quotes About Government

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.

I found it much harder to accept the harsh reality of the German experience in the Third Reich. We, a civilized, humane people, had allowed ourselves to become indifferent to brutality committed by our own government on our own citizens.

When a man is out of politics, let him stay out.

Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.

There's really a fundamental political corruption problem that put Washington completely out of touch with the people.

I do not want to stay in Washington.

Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.

If you like Obama, if you like a Washington that offers free stuff and taxing the rich, that's what you get. I don't see him evolving as a president.

I think it's funny that nobody wants to be liked by Washington. All the politicians go, 'I don't like Washington. They don't like me.' I always find it funny that people are trying to distance themselves from Washington as much as they can, even though they're all in Washington.

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?

When Trump was elected, there were three parties in Washington: the Trump party, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.

I've developed several serious policy proposals to create jobs, reform Washington and reduce spending.

We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.

The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill.

Conservative and Labour governments have arguably championed British rights in Brussels so ostentatiously in order to deflect public attention away from their deference to Washington.

Washington, D.C.'s lost the trust and faith of everyone.

I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'