Quotes About Government

They tell you in this country that you have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. And we all believe that. But first you've got to have the boots. And the federal government gave Franni's family the boots.

My point is, the Senate is filled not just with lawyers, but with old white men.

Campaign contributions don't buy votes. What they buy is access.

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

The subjugation of news by entertainment seriously harms our democracy: It leads to dysfunctional journalism that fails to inform the people. And when the people are not informed, they cannot hold government accountable when it is incompetent, corrupt, or both.

Take it from me–elections matter.

I am Al Gore; I used to be the next president of the United States of America.

Governments and public sector organizations across the world are trying to balance essential, and often conflicting, demands: to deliver better, more relevant public services centred on the needs of the citizens and businesses they serve; to reduce costs and improve the efficiency of their operations; and to reinvent supply chains to deliver services quickly, cheaply and effectively.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.

In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published.

fundamentalist Christianity continues to lobby the government for more support while criticizing Jews and Catholics for trying to subvert the government.

spies and journalists were fated to go through life together, and it was sometimes hard to tell one from the other. Their jobs weren't all that different: they talked to politicians, developed sources in government bureaux, and dug around for secrets.

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

government regulation cannot substitute for individual integrity.

Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive... it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security." —THOMAS JEFFERSON The Declaration of Independence

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.