Quotes About Government

My job as Home Secretary is to keep families and communities across our country safe.

It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets.

I value my ability to keep state secrets.

It is not business, it is not government - it is the social sector that may yet save the society.

AAP does secular politics.

And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.

I don't like prolonged, highly expensive commissions, especially if they are chaired by judges. We seem to have overwhelming faith in judges.

Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to destroy our credit and derange the whole fabric of government. If that should not be done, the government and country will be involved, ere long, in overwhelming difficulties.

Corruption in government is an overwhelming problem.

I'm not going to be bullied by an overzealous agency of the United States government.

Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

I believe the U.S. government owes it to the American people to tell them the truth about what is happening in Guantanamo.

Federal agencies that own bridges have some of the worst records for on-time inspections. Nearly 3,000 bridges owned by U.S. government agencies went more than two years between checkups.

The majority of ground in the U.S. is owned by the federal government, and right now, very little of it is accessible to anybody that is trying to produce oil and gas, and we need to be opening that up.

Regulators owned and controlled by industry are not the American way.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

Gun owners are not buying firearms because they anticipate a confrontation with the government. Rather, we anticipate confrontations where the government isn't there - or simply doesn't show up in time.

There are only two reasons to compile list of gun owners: to tax them or to take them.

We, as citizens, are the true owners of government.

In the 1930s and the 1940s, we set up the FHA. We set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. We set up specific bureaus to make our communities look the way they look.

I would like there to be an entity, a person with some authority, to interact with government, with officials, to advocate on behalf of firearms owners.

Our job is to help people take ownership of the process of electing their government. As leaders, our job is to inspire others and not discourage them.

We gotta get Fannie and Freddie out of government ownership. It makes no sense that these are owned by the government and have been controlled by the government for as long as they have.