Quotes About Government

Muchos, en su optimismo unidimensional, creyeron ingenuamente que la izquierda había llegado al poder.

One person could run a small state, if they were strong and angry enough. But the USA was too big for that.

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

Do you work for the government, any government?" "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

NASA, a U.S. government agency that makes extensive use of Java. One notable example is SkyWatch, an applet that helps stargazers keep an eye out for orbiting satellites.

democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion

secularism cannot escape religion, since religion is the reason the secular state exists at all.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

Nationalism meant differentiating between the nation and the state, and it was clear that no government could take upon itself the rights of a nation.

As too much power leads to despotism, too little leads to anarchy, and both eventually to the ruin of the people.

One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk.

Removing the socks and wringing them out over the Los Angeles Times, Hagopian said, "People play wacky games in these parts. I've been wondering if there isn't some new kind of wackiness virus, something that the screwed-up air around LA causes to form. The wackiness strain, first it takes over greater Los Angeles and then it slowly creeps across the country. I myself am immune to it, but that's no help if everyone else comes down with it. The government

Before Bush, I used to think that the choice of president really didn't matter, that the system kind of ran on its own- that whatever they said during the campaign, the system of checks and balances was really bigger than any individual. But that is what has been so chilling about seeing some of the decisions that have been made unilaterally over the past eight years.

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.