Quotes About Government

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of government's failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place.

In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.

The country has moved off track. The people in Washington don't have the hard-nosed business experience needed to get the economy up and running.

It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character.

Throughout the 40 years I've been in Washington, I've always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

Our government has failed us. From the billion-dollar bailouts to the 'stimulus' package that failed to stimulate to the government takeover of health care, you cried 'Stop!'... but the Democratic Majority in Washington has refused to listen.

You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.

The strength of America is not in Washington.

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

We need to fix Washington, D.C. and states need to fix their sanctuary policies. That's the problem.

People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq.

As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.

I'm trying to avail myself of the various technologies to get the message that Washington needs to be cleaned up, that the system that's in place is not what's beneficial in the country.

Events in America show the extent to which democracy there is fuelled by populism - Barack Obama's victory is a manifestation not of Washington's need for change, but of America's. That is not how democracy works in England.

Stimulus spending, permanent bailouts, government takeovers, and federal mandates have all failed our nation. America's employers are afraid to invest in an economy racked with uncertainty over what Washington's next set of rules, regulations, mandates, and tax hikes will look like.

Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.

You know the way Washington works. Once you start floating ideas, they are immediately attacked by all the different interest groups before the ideas can be brought to fruition.

I think the American people deserve somebody telling them what is really happening in Washington.

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

In every jurisdictional area that I can get my fingers on, I want to move us away from the Washington insider economy.

I really think that people's right to happiness shouldn't be dictated by some policymaker in Washington, D.C. I've come to know a lot of people that - sexual orientation is such where they're in love with people from the same sex, and I just don't think it's our role in the government to say, 'No you can't be married.'