Quotes About Government

After God had carried us safe to New-England, and wee had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, rear'd convenient places for Gods worship, and setled the Civill Government: One of the next things we longed for, and looked after was to advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministery to the Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust.

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

I think the thing that's impressed me the most has been the fantastic professionalism of the officials in the Senate.

I am confident the Obama administration will work professionally with any Israeli government.

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

It would be so simple for the government to support farmers to become more profitable and farm sustainably.

Government buffer-stock schemes are rife with politics, and instead of generating profits from buying low and selling high, they tend to generate losses.

Democratically elected governments meekly requesting giant corporations to pay pitifully low levels of tax on their enormous profits is not a good look.

The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of medications prescribed. It would be a very profound change from the ideal to which we aspire.

Politics is profoundly nonlinear.

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.

We support President Truman's civil rights program.

The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.

Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program.

As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.

Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?

Last year, New York got $200 million. This year, we're going to give them $124 million under this particular program. But last year was an artificially elevated number to make up from the very low grant the year before.

What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

Make no mistake: Obamacare is a pro-death 'health' program.