Quotes About Government

We're concerned with a powerful government who is telling General Motors now, maybe, what they can charge for their automobiles. Indeed, if the government owns 61 percent, they can do that.

The largest automobile company in the world is Volkswagen. Who owns it? The answer is the government of Qatar.

I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read English, and I'm really interested in politics.

The concern is the Government is not coming clean and informing the Australian public of the assumptions that they have made to give rise to a $10.4 billion package.

Trillion-dollar bailouts, bloated budgets, and boondoggle spending packages aren't working, at least for my friends and neighbors.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

Americans count on the guaranteed benefits they paid for under Medicare.

There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.

Sadly, Indians are not very easily accepted in Pakistan, and that has a lot to do with the governments.

Attempts are being made to turn Pakistan into a security state. If they succeed they should better rename it 'ISIstan.'

Modi created the impression that he was ready to go to war with Pakistan after the Pulwama attack. But his government was so broke it was begging the RBI for Rs 300,000 crore.

I have no illusions about our elected politicians. Pakistani democracy is anything but perfect.

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on.

I am someone who really would like to see more women in government, but Palin makes me cringe every time I hear about her.

I harbor no illusion that government and elected office is a panacea for all of society's ills.

Unfortunately, even during a pandemic we've seen a process in Washington that makes no sense for the needs of Mainers.

Continued federal overreach won't end the COVID-19 pandemic or put food on the table.

Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.

When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I awake most days, read the paper, and then observe that, 'It's yet another great day to be the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.'

One thing my father said was that if you find yourself in a country where you have to carry papers, you know it has a lousy government.