Quotes About Government

During my years of services in the government, I have spent a great deal of time studying and managing the spectrum of threats to our borders as well as the diverse ways in which those threats are moved across the border.

Security has to be, and has long been, our government's top priority. It is imperative that we continue to diligently watch for potential threats by all appropriate means.

The FBI is engaged in a myriad of efforts to combat cyber threats, from improving threat identification and information sharing inside and outside of the government to developing and retaining new talent, to examining the way we operate to disrupt and defeat these threats.

One of the biggest challenges for any Home Secretary - indeed, any government - is how we deal with emerging threats.

Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property.

You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.

Americans don't know the Constitution. More than half of those surveyed can't name any of the rights guaranteed under the First Amendment. Only a quarter can name all three branches of government.

If there can be three certain things in life, instead of two, it might be death, taxes, and data.

When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier.

We want to find a permanent solution to the DACA population, not a continual three-year renewal period.

I saw my father deal with every headache the government threw his way - whether it had to do with the signs on the front of the building or the prices on the showroom floor. He knew he could do better, if government would just get out of the way - and stay out of the way. He was right.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

I have said before, you don't expect conservative parties to believe in much, but you do expect them to believe in thrift.

So long as I'm president, communism will not thrive here.

Socialism is antithetical to freedom, because when it breeds and thrives, people die.

If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.

These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off, and security, on top of working fewer hours. They can thrive even in a down economy.

The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.

Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

In the Senate, I will work to shrink the size of our federal government to its core Constitutional role so the private sector can thrive.

No government prospers by saying, 'I don't need to do anything. Just by being there, we have made the country thrive.'