Quotes About Government

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think it's bipartisan.

The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.

I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting budgets and, and trying to get a grip on the size of government.

But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.

Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt.

Washington is unpredictable these days.

For a bill to become law, it truly has to be the will of the people, and for a president to stop the will of the people and stop what you're trying to do in your state is not the role of Washington.

Ohio's doing what it can do, but I wish they'd get their act together in Washington.

I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.

So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom.

If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren.

I think in Washington, D.C., a lot of people are talking down about business.

And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.

I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.

I love Arizona. I was raised right. Somebody has to go to Washington and knock the hell out of the place.

The Republicans I know or the conservatives I know, they disagree with what the Republicans are doing in Washington because we are compromising too much.

There is so much uncertainty out there, and the government in Washington doesn't seem to get it. What's needed is a new business environment.

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.

You know, one thing I've learned over 40 years is that when you have jobs in Washington, you do it day by day and that's what I'm doing as secretary of defense.

Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too.

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.