Quotes About Government

I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.

The bottom line is: If any government has a rule that would legally allow it to punish people for things that don't deserve punishment, then that law should be scrapped or changed.

Direct Grants, private schools which took huge numbers of state pupils, involved effective co-operation between state and private sectors - a thing all modern governments claim they want. So why were they abolished? And why aren't they now restored?

I feel like Obama's an Illuminati puppet.

We need an attorney general for the people, not a presidential protector and puppet of the administration.

Obama's just a puppet - he's a puppet in a chair.

The federal government should not be in the business of initiating and administering short-term incentive programs designed to shape consumer purchase behavior.

Quite often the federal government purchases things at prices higher than individuals in the private marketplace.

Governments, many of them European, are actually offering - and investors are buying - bonds that are worth less at the end of five or 10 or even 30 years than their purchase price.

Prosperity is not purchased through the expansion of big government 'safety net' programs.

There is no pure free-market economy.

The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing.

Politics is a pure meritocracy. That's why Gordon Brown's cabinet had two brothers and a married couple in it. They just happened to be the best people around.

The U.S. is not pure capitalism. In fact, there's no place for pure capitalism, unregulated capitalism. We have a regulated system.

You think that the CNN hosts can aggressively challenge government officials? I don't think so. It doesn't look that way at all. And of course, when you get to Fox News, they're a whole different animal: they're purely propaganda.

When we find a ship, we turn it over to the state or federal government. It's purely historical. I've never made a dime on any of it.

Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it.

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.

I think a black man, purple man, Martian man can run the country... as long as he does right by the people.

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The Democrats have prevailed because, at heart, we have embodied a great idea, which is that an elected government can be the instrument of the common purpose of a free people; that government can embrace great causes and do great things.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.