Quotes About Government

The corruption doesn't cease, the crime rates don't come down, no matter which party comes to power.

Government should eschew suasion and directives to banks on interest rates that run counter to monetary policy actions.

I advised the insurance companies to apply certain rate adjustments only to plans where the federal government provides assistance in order to save Montanans money and keep rates lower on other plans.

Lord knows I'm all for lowering rates and simplifying the tax code.

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history, and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded, we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund.

We're only one of a few states that have maintained our Triple-A bond rating from the major rating agencies.

Before the CFPB, there was no single agency or entity within the federal government tasked with protecting Americans from predatory or negligent practices of banks, credit card companies, mortgage lenders, payday lenders, credit rating agencies and other financial service businesses.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.

Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries.

I don't want doctors and patients to be having to - having to literally ration care, take away that relationship by having the government come in and interfere.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Freedom rests on a rational distrust of government; government will always use its power to benefit the incumbent administration.

George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the Bush administration was more cynical than messianic.

It is rational Republicans who want to pull the plug on the Trump presidency.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford... The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children.

I've never been antiregulation. I've always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn't work.

I used to make training films for the U.S. government. I was always cast as a madman or a prisoner. I once played a prisoner who was holding himself hostage with a razor blade.

Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests.

Any time a president is re-elected, he has a little more political clout to get things done.

The challenge is to reach out to everyone, 'especially those who have fallen for fake news and 'misleading advertisements. This government, for 56 months, misled the people by saying Modi didn't let them work.

As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.

Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion.

I have been outspoken on my opposition to 'Obamacare,' and I don't buy the line that our Medicaid program, or any function of government, has reached maximum efficiency.