Quotes About Government

These classes, according to the degree of enlightenment at which they have arrived, may propose to themselves two very different ends, when they thus attempt the attainment of their political rights; either they may wish to put an end to lawful plunder, or they may desire to take part in it.

Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.

The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.

I feel the UPA government has realized that it is not coming back to power.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.

I'm realizing this more and more that it's one thing to get involved with your own political beliefs and stand behind you believe in personally. But as far as bands doing that in a way where they think they're going to fight the government, the only people they're really hurting is the fans.

I've spent my adult life in the national security realm.

Government leaders need to ask themselves if they are positioning their country to reap the full potential of the digital economy.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

There is no reason why EPA's role should ebb and flow based on a particular administration or a particular administrator.

The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.

As one of the principal responsibilities of the government is to safeguard its citizens, it is entirely reasonable that it should look at what more might be done to improve security.

We are giving the citizens of Poland a sense that a reasonable and predictable government is ruling here.

I think it's smart for the United States to have some kind of tax revenue for international earnings - if that tax were reasonable.

It's perfectly reasonable for someone to be hesitant to share their personal information with the government. The Census Bureau shouldn't be forcing anyone to share the route they take their kids to school or any information other than how many people live in their home.

Laws, especially those of a constitutional nature like the Basic Law, which have been formulated through reasonable legislative processes, should never be freely interpreted or lightly abandoned.

I think the notion of tax fairness is the reasonable thing to do.

The BDS movement goes way beyond any legitimate, reasonable criticism of a government.

If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

If debtors can reasonably expect that the government will swoop in from time to time to bail them out, no one has any incentive to pay his debts.

No one can reasonably deny that Medicare is headed for insolvency, and that Medicare's insolvency, if not rectified, will lead to the federal government's insolvency.

I don't believe any person looking for work is fearful of political judgment. Government is a large institution, and if they believe that people are going to get rid of good employees for political reasons, that's absurd.

Corporations do a lot of things well, but not run nations, for obvious reasons.