Quotes About Government

We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.

Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.

Foreign policy is about the execution of ideas as much as their formulation.

The foreign policy of the United States rests entirely on propagandistic lies.

When a president was elected with foreign policy experience, it was usually less about his foreign policy experience than other things.

I think one of the critiques of me is that I thought I knew it all. But I was learning from the enormous resources available within the U.S. government who have a very different view of the world than many of the people commenting on foreign policy from outside of the government.

A divided government doesn't have to be a death blow to foreign policy.

No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

First and foremost, the onus is on yourself to perform your own duties. If you can't, then it's your family or community's job to support you. If that still doesn't work out, then the government will take responsibility to protect you.

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

If Kerala wants development like other states in the country, then a BJP Government has to be formed here.

Lending has come back in retail; it has come back in working capital. It has also come back in other forms, like government contract being given out to companies.

School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.

I've put forth measures that would actually eliminate some of the executive branch power. You know, philosophically, that's where I am.

If someone builds a fortune, it belongs to him, not the government. An entitled government undermines liberty.

We must be loyal to the forum of our government.

Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.

All of us who care about the world going forward would like to engage the government more.

Is democracy about living in fear? Is that what our forefathers fought the British for?

The law is the foundation of our society.

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.

Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more.

What makes America great was a government that was founded to be limited to doing one thing. I really believe the whole purpose of America, the aspirational value - why everybody who wants to come to this country wants to come here - was because we respected the dignity of every living person.