Quotes About Government

Congress came to see NASA primarily as a jobs program, not an exploratory agency.

We have a mentoring and angel investing programme. We are also talking to the government to help create a VC industry.

We need to stand over our policies when negotiating a programme for government.

A number of immunisation programmes are funded and announced by the government and international bodies, but little thought goes into the injecting or delivery mechanism.

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.

I call for greater measures to involve more women at higher levels in mine action. Governments should do more to address gender in their mine action programmes and through their implementation of the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention.

Many programs are built on the government's spending power, and the existence of an extraconstitutional limit on that power is a worrisome development.

I'm going to give away a lot more than half my money. I'd be happy to give that to the government if the government put together programs that were like I'm giving away to charity, in which I believe the money is effectively used to help people.

I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.

It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.

Government can run and fund programs, but it can't love, it can't show compassion, and it can't embrace. Our faith is designed to have social implications, not just heavenly ones. The spiritual and the social must be connected.

Far too many government spending programs have gone years, even decades, without being reauthorized, leaving the American people less able to effectively review, rethink, and possibly eliminate government programs.

All of those loan programs that the federal government administers have flaws.

What I do in my book is let people know about these programs.

You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.

I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.

Our nation's anti-hunger programs need to be strengthened.

Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.

When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs are on a path of fiscal unsustainability.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.

Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people.

We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence.