Quotes About Government

I've had quite a long time in government, and I've learned a few things.

I would quite like to be home secretary again if I ever got the opportunity because there's a few things I'd like to do a bit better than last time.

I do think if we had a draft again, the United States would embark on fewer wars.

You can't just magically create subsides through executive fiat.

The arts are part of the fiber of American society and should get Federal support.

The people of the Fifth District of Louisiana need and deserve a voice in Washington.

They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures.

The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.

We don't want our government building files on what people think about their government.

My view of the filibuster is either you've got to lower vote edge or make people really filibuster if they feel that seriously about a piece of legislation.

I think I've had my fill of electoral law.

From aloof academics to career government cronies, President Barack Obama filled his Cabinet with individuals whose greatest achievements were dreaming up unworkable Democratic utopias from the far off perches of academia and Washington bureaucracy.

Carrie Lam is a proxy leader.The final decision-maker is President Xi.

There are no free financial markets in America or, for that matter, anywhere in the Western word, and few, if any, free markets of any other kind.

One of the things I care about a lot is public financing in elections.

In 2003, GlaxoSmithKline paid $88 million in civil fines for overcharging Medicaid for its anti-depressant Paxil.

I have a rough time wanting to spend billions and billions and trillions of dollars to help people who won't help themselves, won't lift a finger, and expect the federal government to do everything.

Learn the Constitution. Then when someone wants to be elected, hold their feet to the fire and make them follow it because that's what we need to get back to. It works so well when we follow it.

It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.

Weve got a police system who protect us, weve got firemen who put out fires. Weve got defence, man. Thats what tax is for.

I don't have a firm line on balanced budgets.

I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.

In difficult economic times, I'm firmly opposed to austerity.