Quotes About Government

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.

That's not the way the government works. You can't just take $1 billion from this program, $1 billion from over here, and then put it toward your pet project.

Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to petition our government. It's in the Constitution, and it's something that should be honorable and good.

I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the partisanship, the gridlock, the pettiness, and the corruption.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Central aid never comes in one disbursal; it comes in phases.

There is no doubt that there is a very strange phenomenon called the 'State Comptroller.'

At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.

The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.

In the Philippines, it is routine to appeal an indictment to the DOJ, and they routinely quash indictments.

We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionally limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Communism is like one big phone company.

I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged.

The cell phone companies add to the problem. Every one they give out, they get money for from the federal government. So they have an incentive to give as many away as possible. And that's exactly what they're doing, and they're making a killing.

Big brother listening in on your phone calls - I got a problem with that.

I had someone call me this morning telling me they had somebody who would only work a certain number of hours a week because if they worked too many hours a week then they couldn't get their government assistance. And that person has multiple cell phones, and gets them new every month with new minutes.

I have been saying for a long time, all my phones are tapped.

The phrase 'perception is reality' is overused generally. But perception can be reality in monetary policy. The bond market doesn't act merely on what it sees. It acts on what it expects of the Fed or the government.

My mother informed me that the way to be a change agent to create change, the first line of defense, or however you want to phrase that, is politics and government.

Rather than redistribute physician income as a way to subsidize an expansion of government control, Mr. Obama should fix the payment system to align incentives with improved care.

Laws of physics don't necessarily apply to real-life political situations.

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.