Quotes About Government

It shouldn't take a constitutional crisis or an attack on the nation to create honest dialogue in the Senate.

I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear.

Government shouldn't try to dictate what art looks like or what it portrays. Last thing we want is government screwing it up, which is what they would do.

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?

We say less things about Australians than Australians say about us, calling me a dictator, authoritarian government.

Dictators don't come from elections.

It's very hard to describe an elected government as a dictatorship.

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

I've always been against taxing diets.

Our democracy works because the parties air and debate their differences in public.

To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.

You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be.

We in Congress need to do everything possible to encourage and cultivate small businesses, so that they can expand and create jobs. Far too often, however, U.S. small businesses are impeded by government paperwork and bureaucratic red tape.

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

Washington politicians think that government can make better decisions than you and me. But we know better. We know it's smaller, less intrusive government that will lead to real economic prosperity. We know it's business-friendly policies, not more red tape, that will create real growth.

I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected.

We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target.

What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide all sorts of information as to where that person lives etc. to get a work permit only to be a target for deportation in two years?

We have been mandated by the government, backed by legislation, that we have to have an inflation target of about 4%.

From my experience as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, if a congressperson is identified as a potential target by a foreign intelligence service, that individual is notified.

In a weird way, I'm a good target for the government, because I can push back.