Quotes About Government

government should be good at, relative to the private sector – namely, equality, efficiency, merit, fairness and justice.

If the government is no longer as good as it once was in providing clear answers, the courts are now there to do so.

I discovered, for the first time but not the last, that politicians don't care too much what things cost. It's not their money.

The hoplites drove the tyrants from power and created broad oligarchies in their place.

The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.

I know how important voting and elections are. But everybody know that life is going to be life regardless of who is president.

Life isn't fair, but government must be.

Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.

Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.

One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.

The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.

The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.

I've been dealing with politicians all my life. They are all talk, no action.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.

Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.

I think every person who is single should have a dog. I think the government should step in and intervene: If you're not married or coupled up, whether you've been dumped or divorced or widowed or whatever, they should require you to proceed immediately to the pound nearest you and select an animal companion.

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.