Quotes About Government

I feel that schools and corporates should help the government in popularising sports in the country. Blaming the government for every sporting debacle will not be fair.

I'm happy to pay my fair share - which is whatever the tax is right now.

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

Many countries struggle and never get to the point where people have faith that laws are executed fairly.

Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism.

We have to have the faithful in government.

Our democracy is falling apart - we can't just let that happen.

Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president.

Both economics and politics are false sciences.

Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.

Our child benefit goes directly to the families who need it the most.

Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.

I still lie awake at night thinking about everything that could have been, that wasn't done to stop 9/11. To the 9/11 families, I said, you deserve better from your entire government. All of us.

I think the over-militarization of local police forces is also true of the over-militarization of the federal government, so I don't really run and hide from the comment that I think there are 48 federal agencies that have SWAT teams.

Being a successful CEO, where I've driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that's a critical benefit to running the state government.

When we had segregated schools and when we had a time when, you know, girls weren't allowed to have the same kind of sports teams - I mean, there have been important inflection points for the federal government to get involved in some of the areas around protecting students and ensuring safe environments for them - there is a role to play.

The era of roadside decisions, declarations have gone. My government's decisions will be guided by teamwork and consultations.

Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands.

2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction.

Even when the nation's leaders acknowledge tech issues, details are lacking.

One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

I'm a very big proponent of cloud. We've used it a lot in private sector, and as far as we can tell, it is not only more efficient, it's probably also more secure for lots of very complicated technical reasons. I think it's a very important thing for government to do, and also to have systems that talk to each other.

There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state.