Quotes About Government

When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.

Apart from medieval China, which invented both paper and printing centuries before the West, the world had never seen government paper money until the colonial government of Massachusetts emitted a fiat paper issue in 1690.

Printing money - is it really the answer? ... If we just print a million dollars for every man, woman, and child in the country and handed it to them, won't that fix everything? Because in order to really look at printing - I like to take everything to the extreme.

We have to remember there is not a big printing press in Washington that continually prints money over and over.

Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

The deficit - the U.S. knows our deficit is too large. We are committed to bringing it down. We are bringing it down. The deficit came in for fiscal year '05 at considerably below where it was the prior year.

I talk a great deal to prior Secretaries of State about policy issues.

I was Minister for the Armed Forces in the Ministry of Defence for two years prior to being appointed Defence Secretary.

In 2007, as a condition for hosting the Olympics in Beijing, the Chinese government removed restrictions barring Beijing-based journalists from leaving the capital without prior written permission.

The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

In China, national priorities are established by the Government and then funded by the state; in India, priorities emerge from seemingly endless discussions and arguments amongst myriad interests, and funds have to be found where they might.

Ultimately, when you have to deal with a whole country, priorities change.

The economy grows when families can spend money on personal priorities rather than priorities imposed by the federal government.

Netanyahu's government and its faulty and politicized priorities are leading Israel into bankruptcy.

One of my top priorities will be to defund Planned Parenthood.

Corruption is one of the high priorities of my agenda.

A national government has to have national priorities.

Cybersecurity is one of my main priorities, as well as the government's, and we are committed to making the U.K. the safest place to live and do business online.

Government is about priorities.

The things to watch are whether the country's borrowing costs are rising, whether its budgetary allotment for payments on the debt is increasing, and whether it is spending on good priorities. Those big, scary debt numbers are not as big and scary as they used to be.

President Biden's budget priorities are out of step with the challenges facing our country.

We ought to prioritize national disasters... in a fiscally responsible way.

As a senator, I will prioritize overturning the current system and restoring openness and integrity to our government to return power to the people.