Quotes About Government

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.

Who's going to do a better job of spending your money? You or the government?

Washington would be much better off if it looked more like a state legislature.

I can say this very clearly: I have come into this Congress with an antiwar bias.

The whole Big Brother vision of the world is looming large.

Running the country is like running one big business.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

I'm not against business. I'm against big business in bed with big government.

What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for.

One big mistake of many politicians is to have no understanding for the real situation of people in their country.

America's biggest problem is too much freedom.

Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country.

Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

When I was in the legislature, we worked to create a bipartisan plan to raise teacher pay to the national average.

The system requires bipartisanship.

I would like it to be the rules all round the world that that is the case - you manage the country of your birth.

I do not support legislation that would ban birth control.

Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.

When things aren't going well for black people, they blame the government. When things aren't going well for white people, they can't blame the government because the government is supposed to be for them. So they blame black people.

The people want to go back to the time when democracy was in full bloom.

We stand for getting government out of the way, letting people make good decisions for themselves, in education, returning power to school boards and to teachers and to parents so they can educate the children.