Quotes About Government

The forces that rescued Americans on Sept. 11, 2012, were not the U.S. military. They were not the militias that overthrew Gadhafi. They were Gadhafi devotees who were loyal to him and to the U.S. government with whom their leader reached a 'deal.'

The shape and composition of the government is important. We haven't reached a point where politics and economics have been totally divorced from each other.

The coalition government made it clear from the outset that it would proceed with defendant anonymity in rape cases only if the evidence justifying it was clear and sound. In the absence of any such finding, it has reached the conclusion that the proposal does not stand on its merits.

I have missed meetings because a Speed Post from a government office reached after the meeting. But these are rare blips in a large network.

'Obamacare,' as it's been called, is far too reaching. It's overreaching. It needs to have a lot of it repealed.

I'll be reaching across the aisle to find opportunities to work with Democrats on the issues that desperately need to be addressed.

It's been vindicating to see the reaction from lawmakers, judges, public bodies around the world, civil liberties activists who have said it's true that we have a right to at least know the broad outlines of what our government's doing in our name and what it's doing against us.

Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction.

In politics, as in physics, every reaction is met with an equal and opposite reaction.

The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read the settlers' publications, you think that the leftists are everywhere: The leftists infiltrate the government, the leftists run the Defense Ministry, the leftists dominate the legal establishment, and the leftists control the media, of course.

When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred.

When the federal government invests in education, it should support quality education and career readiness rather than institutions that make empty promises.

If you ever had the misfortune of reading all 2,000 pages of Dodd-Frank, which I have done - and it almost killed me - basically, all it does is create a list of all the things it wants the Fed to fix.

My life is politics, reading books and exercise.

The electric car, it's not the government saying, 'Oh, we must have electric cars.' The market was ready for that. People were ready for that, so, we have electric cars.

Belize is not ready for self-government.

We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

If we have George W. Bush as president, we're going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.

Reagan used to say that 'we're a country with a government.' Well, now we're a government with a country, and we're making everybody else that way, too.

I'm glad Reagan is president. Of course, I'm a professional comedian.

Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.