Quotes About Government

Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.

I don't like the repeal of the estate tax.

A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.

There will be no use of military forces in immigration. There will be no - repeat, no - mass deportations.

We've gone through rounds of tax cutting and rounds of tax increases in modern U.S. history. We haven't really had a big igniting of a trade war belligerence since the Depression era, and that's not an era that we want to repeat.

Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.

Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.

I have said repeatedly I do want to take longer to eliminate the deficit than the other parties. Because I want to see us have the ability to invest more in our economy, in our public services, and in lifting people out of poverty.

I have repeatedly called for respecting institutions and the democratic process. Once the process is completed, we should always respect the outcome.

Despite being bailed out - in some cases repeatedly - by the public purse, the automakers have shown little public spirit.

Clinton's problem was that many Americans didn't trust her because she was caught telling untruths - repeatedly - about her email system. She first told us it was simply a matter of convenience to use her unsecure, non-government email system. That wasn't true.

With rising Covid-19 cases and deaths in India, the government should have thought of the repercussions before opening liquor shops.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

We need to aim to get rid of food banks altogether, and replace charitable intervention with a fairer, more equal society.

Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.

Obamacare's a disaster. But the answer is not to simply return to the way things were before. The answer is to repeal and replace Obamacare with modern, market-centered reforms.

Let's replace Obamacare with reforms that put you back in charge of your own healthcare.

Obamacare rewrote Medicare... so if you're going to repeal and replace Obamacare, you have to address those issues as well... What people don't realize is that Medicare is going broke, that Medicare is going to have price controls... So you have to deal with those issues if you're going to repeal and replace Obamacare.

We need to repeal and replace Obamacare.

I think that we need, you know, Sen. Vitter is quite conservative, and I think we need to replace a good strong conservative with another conservative.

Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.

The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.

Bashar al-Assad needs to be replaced, but he can't be replaced with another Bashar al-Assad.

Maintenance grants, a proud Labour achievement which made it easier for children from lower and middle income families to go to university, have been abolished in one fell swoop. To be replaced with loans.