Quotes About Government

If I have to do my tax online, the government should pay for my Internet hook-up, darling.

We share no data with the government anywhere in the world.

I want to make it very clear from day one that we are a government for everyone.

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

When my father would come home from his work at the Senate and talk about the things he could talk about - because a lot of his work was top secret - he would always tell me these stories and laugh. As deadly serious as his work was, he would laugh at the absurdity of it all.

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

Dean Acheson was one of the very best and brightest of the men who ever came to Washington.

We are moving the debate in a more limited government direction. And in a more rule of law direction, a more conservative direction.

I like debating policy.

There's no debt limit in the Constitution.

We still have a major problem in debt with America that we have to find efficiencies in government to get us back to a balanced budget.

The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

We have to deal with the nation's debt.

There's an argument that private debt, in some way, is creating indentured servants in our country. But public debt does not do that. In fact, public debt does the exact opposite - it relieves private debt.

We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.

I don't see why anybody's playing chicken with the debt ceiling.

In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.

I believe the role of the government is too big. Society must be more decentralized.

I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want.

They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is.

There's a rhythm to the legislative session and there are rhythms to legislative sessions. So I think that's very important to take into consideration when you are deciding what to do when.

Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.

Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these decisions they make.

What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us.