Quotes About Government

More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.

People create jobs, not the government.

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services ' it's actually a 'false choice.'

Today, right now, I affirm that you, Lord Jesus, are already the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. I'm not waiting for the day you will become the true King, for you are already reigning over all things at the right hand of God the Father. The government of all things is on your shoulders. Your kingdom of redemption and restoration is the only unshakable kingdom. Of the increase of your government and peace there will be no end, for you will reign forever and ever!

Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and uphold it with justice and righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this. (Isa. 9:7)

Way back in 1831, Michael Faraday, one of the founders of our modern understanding of electromagnetism, was asked by an inquiring politician about the usefulness of this newfangled "electricity" stuff. His apocryphal reply: "I know not, but I wager that one day your government will tax it".

For the first time in over a decade, your state government is doing what you do every day at home-spending what it takes in and saving for a rainy day.

Next time a man tells you talk is cheap, ask him if he knows how much a session of Congress costs.

It's time to repeal gun bans everywhere in the United States.

Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything.

Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.

There was a time when the United States government earned the trust of its people. There was a time when most people believed that the United States government was protecting them.

By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.

There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

I have a hard time imagining a country or a government where I would say, "Oh, this is good," where I could live under a government that I respect for a day or a week, even to see what it feels like.

From the time they get up in the morning and flush the toilet, they're taxed. Then they go and get the cup of coffee, they're taxed....This goes on all day long. Tax, tax, tax.

As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.

Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.

We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.

I am confident Pakistani government will provide me with adequate security, unlike the government at the time that sabotaged my mother's security in Pakistan.

Every time Washington regulators pass down another heavy-handed rule or levy another hefty fine, Colorado loses potential jobs, revenue, and economic security.