Quotes About Government

The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his representatives and which are promulgated beforehand and applied legally.

It is essential to democracy that the elected representatives of the people make the laws that govern this country - and not the judges.

Public servants should always be accountable and responsible for what they are advocating, and I challenge the American people to demand this from their representatives.

I am not a career politician, even though this is my 12th year in the United States House of Representatives.

I love serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, and I have especially enjoyed my time on the Ways and Means Committee.

I was on the elections committee in my last session in the state House of Representatives.

The representatives of people become uncrowned kings and queens once they get into Parliament.

All our elected representatives - and our government - have a responsibility to keep their people safe and well.

The beauty of our democracy is that the final authority is not the president of the United States, but instead the American public through their duly elected representatives in the United States Congress.

As representatives, we are accountable first not to our party, not to our leadership, not to the chief executive, but just to our constituents.

The president has immense powers, but he cannot spend money unless we, the people's representatives in Congress, have agreed that he can.

The economical policies that are instigated really makes you think that the American government is a bunch of evil bastards. So just because you're black, you're still representing that government, and when Obama came into office he enacted the same policies that we would critique other presidents for.

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

I simply want to do what I can to have the best Congress possible representing the American people.

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

I love representing Minnesota in the Senate.

Representing the people is not something 'our' representatives do. They are too busy representing a handful of private interest groups such as the financial sector, the military/security complex, and agribusiness.

A lot of people in America and Europe feel that their governments are not representing them very much.

To have a government for and by the people, the people should be appointed to serve on state entities, not lobbyists who have an interest in representing their client rather than representing the folks of Alabama.

The federal government should only be flying the flag that represents all people, the American flag.

It is imperative the government is held accountable to the people it represents and does not abuse its position in key areas of personal freedom and liberty.

I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt in trillions rather than in billions. And I think that represents a long-term danger, especially to the, the American dream.

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.