Quotes About Government

The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.

I think that if the Postal Service dies, it will be the end of democracy as we know it.

In 14 months, my government, the Philippine 2 government, has filed 11 cases. I posted bail eight times, I've been arrested twice in five weeks, detained once, and the only thing I've done, my only crime is to be a journalist, to speak truth to power.

Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies. However, whatever your sentiments about the government's bailout of General Motors, for every job Barack Obama 'saved-or-created' in the U.S. there were two jobs off shore.

I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.

Many Americans, we know, are horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.

The central government role is to ensure that what goes on in the school is revealed to parents and potential parents. It is not, absolutely not, to run the school.

We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country.

When the government mandates that everyone must buy a product, its sellers can, and will, increase its price, potentially without limit.

The government should not have the right to force you to participate in some type of behavior that is going to conflict with your conscience rights, and if it does or potentially does, you should have the ability to have access to courts, and currently, that's not necessarily the case.

Clinton set up an entire secret, unsecured communications structure outside of the government she was charged with serving at the highest level; she was the Secretary of State. Classified information that, in the wrong hands, could potentially bring harm to our country - and many in service to our country - was available to be appropriated.

You are paying for petrol, roads, tolls but what are you getting? Year after year, the roads go bad and then get repaired, but the number of potholes only keep rising.

I don't want the United States to be Athens on the Potomac.

There's no reason why the public shouldn't be able to see how billions of pounds are being spent on their behalf.

I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

It's absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

The central government wants to increase the number of nuclear power plants but we believe nuclear plants have their inherent problems.

America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.

The paternalism of the Conservative party is breathtaking.

It's very clear the Conservative party does not want to move to real climate action.