Quotes About Government

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.

Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off of Christian values. It goes hand-in-hand. As far as the Republican Party? I felt connected to it because individual freedom should not be legislated by the federal government.

Individuals usually do a better job than the government.

I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.

Fracking is an industrial process, but it can be done safely. It's government's job to make sure it can be done safely.

Basically, I think society functions thanks to how certain key industries work - government, finance, healthcare, education, energy. Pretty much all of these have a huge impact on everything else.

Government on its own is always inefficient.

I just don't think our best are in politics. I think these guys are inept.

The impact of punitive government measures is long-lasting and widens inequality and social discord.

Large government is inevitably inefficient, but so, too, is large private enterprise.

The courts are supposed to be the inferior branch of our three branches of government.

I'm against using Petrobras to combat inflation.

The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.

Government influences your life every day. If there's a war, they're not drafting guys my age.

I want to be influential as a legislator.

I have many times made public information that the government wanted to keep secret, information that the public has a right to know.

If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely.

Scotland has been re-energized, and people all over the country have become involved in - and informed about - politics and government in a way that I have never known before. In short, we have put ourselves firmly in control of our country.

We live inside a democracy, and you know, public will matters in a democracy. I just hope it's informed public will, and frankly, when the decisions are made, you understand the costs.

When you are in the infrastructure sector, you've to work along with the government.

Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.

People need to see where their dollars are going and what infrastructure is being built.

Most people would agree that infrastructure is something government should do.

The states should have much more responsibility for infrastructure building.