Quotes About Government

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.

It is past time for the U.S. government to fully fulfill our moral obligation to those who have fought for freedom and democracy.

A financial panic is a very bad thing, but a government panic can do far greater damage in a far shorter time.

I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.

One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.

A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.

The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of Independence says.

Why is it that any time government takes over something for a few years, its assumed that people are too incompetent to do it for themselves?

People have been unhappy for a long time about the two-party system.

It takes our government an awful lot of time to do most things competently, and that's part of the problem here.

In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.

You've got to learn to handle the press because god knows the government does all the time.

Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time you have a racial in - incident in this country?

If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.

Now Republicans are a more interventionist party than they have been at any time since George W. Bush left office.

In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.

The most important point is, in a time of crisis, there is no way out but for the government to be bold and aggressive.

In all countries, most of the time, official spokesman and official liar are the same thing!

I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.

It is a belief in human potential that has guided me through my time in Government.

One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government.