Quotes About Government

My party will do nothing on climate change because environment, it's a shared jurisdiction, and provinces, they have programs for that, and so I'll let provinces decide what they're going to do to fight climate change.

Well, the federal government has a responsibility to provide leadership in bringing together provinces.

In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.

I love provincial politics.

We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada.

We would love to see Canadian federal and provincial governments establish a new business entity class like the CIC or L3C for social enterprises. Our governments should also offer tax incentives to entice more entrepreneurs into the social economy, and encourage foundations and impact investors to put their capital into social enterprises.

If you read the Senate rules, there are provisions where the Senate parliamentarian can be overridden.

I am from an F.D.R. liberal-Democratic family. With proximity to government, I have become more libertarian.

It's no accident that Montana is the most fiscally prudent state in the nation.

Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.

The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations.

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

I have a CBE, and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family; it's not bestowed on you by the government; you have to be nominated by the public.

I don't like bonuses for public services employees who do great jobs, like prosecutors or judges.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.

It's now evident that public health is part of national security.

The unhoused crisis in our country is a public health emergency, and a moral and policy failure at every level of our government.

Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.

On the question of preserving public lands, Trump replies that our elected officials have spent too long rewarding 'special interests,' by which I assume he doesn't mean petroleum companies and the Bundy family.

I've been very clear all along that public lands must stay in public hands.

Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life, it is important.