Quotes About Government

Senators, in the end, must be elected.

In the end, the responsibility of government abuse lies with the president.

The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.

Telling the public, 'We'll get to it later,' is inadequate. That's what the federal government does.

I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.

There is little incentive even for the media to encourage whistle-blowing or ruffling powerful feathers. They lose advertising, are harassed by government and cut off from the all-important 'A' lists of the rich and the powerful.

I want to keep the government out of the business of giving incentives to have or not have kids, or incentives to marry or not marry.

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

Governments that don't need to broaden their tax base have few incentives to respond to the needs of their people.

Democrats have been willing to make improvements to the ACA since its inception.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

I hope any government formed in Egypt will understand there is no choice but to maintain the framework of international agreements, which include the peace agreement with Israel.

I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interned without a hearing.

Our founding fathers made no mistake when they included the right to peaceably assemble among the first tenets of democracy.

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Government employees make a good amount of money - income levels are very high in Washington, D.C. compared to other markets, so they are living in a bubble.

My graduation was an amazing moment for my family, my community. In my early childhood, we lived on a subsidized income, with government assistance - at one point when I was growing up, my mother was making $14,000 a year. Now I had made it out of the hood, so to speak.

The government should not do everything for everybody all the time, but it should provide basic services to everyone who needs them. Education ought not be contingent on income or where you live. Neither should health.

A tax is something people pay out of income.

There's a lot to be said for expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

Sharia law is completely incompatible with our constitution!

You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.

I think we live in a country that sometimes forgets how effective the rule of law is, perhaps because our governments have often found it inconvenient.