Quotes About Government

But if you really believe that your neighbors must have laws for their own good, why shouldn't you pay for it?

Law, lastly, stands between politics and morality.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.23

Even a queen must obey the law she makes, or there is no law.

Once government got a taste of money, the appetite grew.

Mucha gente se pregunta: "¿Qué va a hacer nuestro gobierno al respecto?", pero a mí me parece que esta actitud es parte de la crisis porque casi todo mundo espera que el gobierno resuelva sus problemas.

los impuestos pueden llegar a ser tu mayor gasto.

In a capitalist economy, entrepreneurs create businesses to make profits, which they earn by pleasing their customers. But in a socialist system, a bureaucrat decides which businesses can open, where they can operate, and what they can sell, and he really doesn't care what the customer thinks.

Young adults across America prefer socialism (fairness) to capitalism (selfishness).' Socialism doesn't simply equal 'fairness.' What it really equals is the abolition of private property; in a socialist economy, the government decides what will be produced, how, and for whom." -p. 13

When Venezuela was a freer economy, it was relatively prosperous. But as the government became more involved in regulating the economy, it became progressively less free, less efficient, and less productive. When Chavez came to power, this process was already well underway; he only doubled down on it and turned economic regression into economic disaster." -p. 22

That's Bernie's cognitive dissonance: railing against the evils created by too much government power, and then pushing for more government power to solve the problem. -p. 145

He may be a scholar, but he's first a man who believes—with certain justification—that he was betrayed by his government.

There's a rift in this country between the people and its leaders. There is corruption at the highest levels of government; it goes beyond mere power politics. The Constitution has been seriously assaulted, our way of life threatened.

President Lyndon Johnson once said, "If the first person who answers the phone cannot answer your question, it is a bureaucracy." Don

We have a long tradition in America of electing a president, celebrating him for a few days, and then spending four or eight years demonizing him, reviling him, or blindly defending him.

wanted to come right out of my chair at the witness table and scream, You guys have been in business for over two hundred years and can't pass routine legislation. How can you be so impatient with a bunch of parliamentarians who've been at it a year after four thousand years of dictatorship?

Robert M. Gates

It was one thing for the country and much of the executive branch of government not to feel involved in the war, but for the DoD—the "department of war"—that was unacceptable.

very size and structure of the department assured ponderousness, if not paralysis, because so many different organizations had to be involved in even the smallest decisions.

After all, one wouldn't want facts and reality—not to mention the national interest—to intrude upon partisan politics, would one?

For my own job, my short list included Hillary, Colin Powell, Panetta, and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.

But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible.

To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as "the system" is to speak correctly, since these organizations are founded upon the same structural conceptual relationships as a motorcycle.

If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government.