Quotes About Government

An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

I am the first authoritarian government elected to become a dictator and then resigning as a dictator. So this is the first dictator in the world who has resigned while still quite healthy.

Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.

The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.

Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.

Nobody wants to shut down the government.

I do not believe we should shut down the federal government.

We don't want the federal government to shut down. It is so inappropriate, and it is not respectful of the people that have sent us here to do our jobs.

Let's shut down the EPA.

I don't want to shut down the government.

I don't want to shut down government.

We don't want to see the government shut down.

If Democrats don't want the government to shut down, support border security. It's that simple.

When the coronavirus-positive cases were 500 in the country, you ordered the shops to shut down, and now when the tally has crossed 50,000 you are opening them. I don't understand the logic.

The president is entitled to try to persuade Congress and the American people to pursue whatever policies he thinks are needed. But he is not entitled to shut down the government when he fails to persuade us.

If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

The heavy hand of government and its rules are causing family businesses to shutter their doors.

The consequence of shutting down the government was not healthy.

Frankly, no issue is worth shutting down the government and denying pay to those committed to public service.

If you're a juvenile delinquent today, you're a hacker. You live in your parent's house; they haven't seen you for two months. They put food outside your door, and you're shutting down a government of a foreign country from your computer.

You get married and have kids, and you get sick of having the government take your money and tell you what to do. I'm just a conservative guy.

When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

I'm sick and tired - and the American people are sick and tired - of the pork barrel spending.

I want to err on the side of constitutional liberty and freedom.