Quotes About Government

What we shouldn't be doing is borrowing money to give benefits to the most fortunate, to put the burden and pull the rug out of those who struggle the most.

You do not need the government to protect open internet; the marketplace was doing it and will continue to do it. All you are doing is adding a burden that does not need to be there.

We have to make the bureaucracy accountable to the people. It is not something esoteric, it can be done.

Our own bureaucracy should not and cannot get in the way of our efforts to get people sheltered.

I would drastically revise much of the Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation, which I call the 'Bureaucrat Full Employment Act.'

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

Who makes decisions for families across America? Should it be a family with their doctor, or should it be some unelected bureaucrat in Washington?

The politics of Europe is unimaginative and bureaucratic.

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

Bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., shouldn't know how to better educate my kids than I do.

Bureaucrats serve their own interests first.

Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.

I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.

The government needs to send out a message to the business community that 'we are on your side.'

The government has got to do something to help independent businesses.

I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.

The dream of socialists, the Maximum Programme, has always been to eliminate the private property, the family and the nation state. With the private property they have not succeeded, but they continue on the path of destruction of the family and the nation.

Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family, and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition; they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America.

Neither politics of chaos and anarchy has succeeded earlier and nor will succeed in future.

There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?

Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has succeeded in keeping the State in check. The problem of the State is evidently as far from solution as ever.

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.

You know, I sure hope this alt-left movement doesn't succeed because, I sure don't want to live in a world where success is punished - and ambitions are thwarted by big government. That is not the American way - and, it's certainly not a path for success.