Quotes About Government

Socialism is when government's taking care of you, you send all your money to the government, the government decides how to spend it instead of letting the people spend it and make all those decisions.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

It's that Romney is taking advantage of the government's 'free stuff,' too, and has been profiting from it handsomely for a long, long time - even as he rails about the 'free stuff' that the government provides other people.

Foreign agents are taking advantage of loopholes in our laws.

Right now, if you're a talented developer or designer, government is what you go into if you can't get a better job.

But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents.

But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.

When US-led forces toppled the Taliban government in November 2001, Afghans celebrated the downfall of a reviled and discredited regime.

This body, the United States Congress, was united, Republicans and Democrats alike, in taking that action, toppling the Taliban government, and working to try and root out al Qaeda and find Osama bin Laden.

You begin to wonder as we make deals with the Taliban and we leave Afghanistan, if the federal government is not telling us that the enemy of America is in fact the American people.

I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.

Peace cannot come without the government of Afghanistan speaking directly to the Taliban or the Taliban talking directly to us.

By terrorising the people, the Taliban have sown deep doubts about the government.

Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.

The process of forming government in a minority is one where you talk to everyone and see: What do you have in common? And is there enough commonality?

Talk radio is an asset to our nation because it encourages strong and healthy debate about public policy, and there is no reason to affect that debate with government legislation.

Do we really want the FCC to conduct investigations and issue warnings to radio talk show hosts nationwide who simply discuss the important issues of our time? The Constitution says 'freedom of speech,' not 'freedom of government-approved fair speech in rationed amounts.'

What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.

The deficit only became a big problem in the Reagan-Bush years. For 12 years, Republican presidents talked about balancing the budget, but failed to propose one.

Snowden has yet to tell me anything that was a fact that I have been able to rebut or that anybody in the U.S. government I have talked to has been able to rebut.

We are very supportive of the economic reforms that the Chinese government have talked about.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

I think that most people who complain about our government have no idea what they're talking about because they've never been to a country with a bad government.