Quotes About Government

If we don't have quality healthcare in our country, I mean, we're the richest country in the world. We should.

We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat.

If you can't educate your citizens and you can't keep them healthy, you can't begin to be a society.

You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

The idea that, in the age of Google, Facebook and the internet, government can control the 'commanding heights' of the economy is one of the great delusions of our age. Modern techonology, social media, the explosion of online retail, among many other things, have meant that governments have less and less control.

I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.

I held top-secret security clearance.

We should all be able to have faith that our governments are working in our best interests - and if they aren't, then they should be challenged and held to account.

The government was built on compromising. And it's frustrating as hell.

So how helpful has 'Help to Work' actually been? Not very.

I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.

We can adhere to the Henry Hyde amendment by saying that no federal funds will be used for abortions. And that's the bottom line for me.

I wonder if 50 years from now we'll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state.

I have no hesitation in challenging government of whatever party.

I'm totally against straight marriage - even though I'm married. I don't think heterosexual marriage is any of the government's business.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

It's no small thing for the citizens of your state to say we want you to represent us at the highest level of our government.

The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.

For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us.

I don't know if anybody can second-guess what they will do on Capitol Hill.

Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.

One of the things I love most about the Capitol Hill beat is that I have regular access to the lawmakers I cover.

Our nation will be in good hands under a president Hillary Rodham Clinton administration.