Quotes About Government

I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.

The Indian government is extraordinarily large, and it is difficult to try and believe that one leader can make all the change. This is a federal system.

The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who provokes free elections in his own country?

I like 'X-Files'-type shows with government conspiracies and extraterrestrials and all that.

I am extremely disappointed by the actions of the 9/11 commission.

If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.

It's the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, 'This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.'

There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.

American democracy has two faces.

I have the experience and ability to step in on day one in Washington and start working on the challenging problems facing our country.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

If Washington were a factory, it would manufacture spending.

If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.

What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.

My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do not have a system of justice that people believe in, the system of democracy will fail.

Forget about banks that are too big to fail; the focus should be on cities, municipalities and countries that are too big to fail.

Over the year,s the government launched more than one 'war on corruption,' and they all failed. Why? Because they all started from the bottom up.

It's the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that's failed.

When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate.

There is no getting around it; Congress is failing the American people.

Government isn't there just to administer life support to failing markets. Without the government, many of those markets would not even exist.

Insofar as the church fails to do the will of God, I am called upon to help it discover and to do the will of God; and I am called upon to help the government to do the same.

Why would you pass another law when the administration fails to enforce the current laws that are on the books. Why pass another one that's not going to be enforced either?