Quotes About Government

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

You have to work across the aisle. Americans have had enough of the gridlock in Washington.

We've had enough career politicians in Helena who think the people are here to serve them. It's supposed to be the other way around.

Haiti is back on the path to democracy.

I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.

I actually don't believe in big government, and half the time I'm never quite sure I believe in government, generally.

In my view, the biggest challenge facing this country is that we are not living within our means. Spending cuts can only get us halfway there.

And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill.

Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It's a hallmark of Area 51.

In the state of Florida, we've got a lot of issues. In fact, we've got 99 issues, and 'Hamilton' ain't one of them.

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

The government grants tax and legal loopholes to real estate investors to encourage them to do a job that the government can't.

WE DEMOCRATS are deeply flawed people, but we do stick to our guns, and believe in decency and public spiritedness and have refused to hitch our wagon to yahooism and intolerance and have supported government as a necessary force for good to "establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty . . .

Madness is unfortunately not incompatible with government.

If you have total government it makes little difference whether you call it Communism, Fascism, Socialism, Caesarism or Pharaohism. It's all pretty much the same from the standpoint of the people who must live and suffer under it.

This history of liberty is a history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

As one Edwardian expressed it, Britain enjoyed 'government of the people, for the people, by the best of the people.

Besides trying to influence opinion in Maine, Webster sent agents to disrupt the activities of the "Patriot Hunters," a radical American group hoping to oust the British from Canada, and the scheme seems to have been the first time that Americans were targets of their own government.

The goal of politics is to make us children. The more heinous the system the more this is true.

The Government finally decided To wage the war all-out. Defeat is Un-American. And they took to the air, Their women beside them in bouffant hairdos putting nail-polish on the gunship cannon-buttons. And they never came down for they found, the ground is Pro-Communist. And dirty. And the insects side with the Viet Cong.

If they are too quarrelsome to unite against him, and so violent that they'll willingly pay his taxes to be protected from one another, they have no reason to complain.

We are the only government upon whose word every man may rely absolutely, and because of that we command infinite credit, infinite obedience, infinite respect If we say to anyone, "Do this and your reward will be such and such," there is no doubt in his mind that he will be rewarded. If we say villages breaking a certain ordinance will be burned to the ground, there is no doubt. We speak little, but every word drops like a weight of iron—

They were functioning, Nicholas. They bought and sold; they worked, and paid their taxes—

Tyranny is a form of perversion. We come to love it. Every government is a tyranny to a degree, and the more evil it is, the more it is loved. The difficulty lies in judging the degree of tyranny under which you live.