Quotes About Government

We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We were not endowed by the Federal Government. We were not endowed by entitlements. We were not endowed by pork barrel spending; we were not endowed by budgetary earmarks.

If you feel the government should leave you alone, you're a Republican. If you think the job of the government is to go push people around and take things for you, then you're a Democrat.

Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.

'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.

Whenever the creation of a national, computerized database of gun owners is proposed, the advocates pushing it insist that people have nothing to fear because politicians will not abuse the enormous power inherent in such a database.

I'm not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer!

China more than two milleniums ago had already considered the idea of democracy, but at that time she could not put it into operation.

Putin is not a politician. Putin is a KGB agent. And whatever he does is provocations, which KGB is usually involved in.

We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.

The Russian government doesn't like me; Vladimir Putin doesn't like me.

You cannot compare any leaders in our country to what Vladimir Putin has done.

All of the people who work in the Russian government and Russian presidential administration, in this way or another, work for Vladimir Putin.

Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of how far government should go to the cross fire of adversarial review.

Washington, D.C., puts enormous burdens on people who, at the end of the day, are just humans.

I believe and still believe that the Chinese government puts great weight on the experience of the Bank in terms of development.

If you had to put people, senators - if they had to go for their V.A. to get care, it would probably get fixed.

There's a million things wrong with government that need to get fixed, but none of its ever going to get fixed unless we start educating our children better.

Someone in Washington needs to get serious about fixing the tax code. That is what needs to happen.

Trump devotees don't care about shrinking the size and scope of government. They don't care about the Constitution. They're not Republicans, except as a flag of convenience.

Medicaid is a deeply flawed program.

I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane.

This is America, but the way that the people of Flint are being treated with this water crisis is like a third-world country.

I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.

There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day!