Quotes About Government

One of the features of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings was [that] she [ Elizabeth II] would have a meeting with each of them. You'd have an allotted time.

I froze, shocked. (And don't try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)

There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.

Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

At least on the domestic side of things that you're seeing, [Mike] Pence has that influence big time. But when it comes with what political fights to have?

There will come a time when the Ministry of Health is the only Ministry we can afford to have and we still won't be able to afford the Ministry of Health

The way this country deals with drugs is just not funny. What a waste of everyone's time and effort. What a waste of a lot of people's lives.

Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself.

As Vice President one of the things I spend time on is the continuity of government; that's the main reason I'm here is a back up for the President if anything happens to him.

Politics is a waste of time.

It is time to let America be America again. To return freedom to the people. To stand on our founding principles and reject the cynical politics of the Nanny State.

It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.

It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by Main Street.

There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.

There's capital controls and there's people control. So every time you think of a fence keeping all those bad people out, think about those fences maybe being used against us, keeping us in.

The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected

You cannot keep your plan and have Obamacare at the same time. Obamacare, by definition, gets rid of your plan and replaces it with health care run by the federal government.

I am running because I love my country and Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama are ruining it. It is time to take our country back and I am asking you to join me in this fight.

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement.