Quotes About Government

When the President makes something a priority, we see action.

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

Sickle cell does not have the priority in this country that it had in the 1960s, when I started working on it. Congress has been cutting everything that wasn't nailed down.

We need to prioritize those expenditures of the federal government in A, B and C priorities... And I believe that on the C priority list are things like the Departments of Education and Energy, and those are the places where we should begin those defunding.

The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority.

The first priority of the Republican majority is the security of Americans.

The priority is to put bills on the president's desk that will move the country forward.

If, before 2020, there is a choice between further spending cuts, more borrowing and tax rises, the priority must be to avoid tax increases. They would disrupt consumption, employment and investment.

Safety has been my top legislative priority. I'm driven by the idea that safety is really a core function of government.

This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.

I am calling upon all of you to come out and fight corruption and agree to support the government in fighting corruption as our first priority.

I'm really proud of a lot of the achievements we've made as a government but obviously I'll be putting my mark on the premiership and doing things that I think are important in terms of my own personal priority.

We put no greater trust in our government than when we turn on our faucet expecting clean water, and I applaud the Drinking Water and Groundwater Advisory Commission for their hard work in addressing this critical priority.

I don't look at Israel through the prism of running an election.

Pakistani prisoners are safe in Indian jails. We are a responsible government.

Conservatives have deep distrust of government power, so I not only understand their privacy concerns, I share them.

The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.

I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.

There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America.

I really think we need to see how we can expand our privacy laws.

The Patriotic Act allows the American government to snoop around anybody's business at any time. Nobody has privacy anymore. Everybody can hack into anybody's system and find out everything about that person's life because it's all on a computer.

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

The whole New Deal was in a sense just a series of public options, some more optional than others, that offered government as an alternative to the often-flawed private market.

If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors.