Quotes About Government

If we finally chose as a country to take responsibility for the wars that we believe we must engage in, and rather than borrow money to exercise that authority to go to war, we actually pay for these wars, that would save us over a trillion dollars, because that's what we have spent in Iraq and Afghanistan - all through borrowed money.

After the Manchu government had carried on wars with foreign nations and had been defeated, China was forced to sign many unequal treaties. Foreign nations are still using these treaties to bind China, and as a result, China fails at whatever she attempts.

In America, you keep on hearing productivity is low; secular stagnation, it's a new normal. It's just not true: We've had multiple wars; we're not educating our kids. We had government shut downs, badly-spent money, failures in the health system, failures and an extreme amount of regulation - that's why we're going slow.

I can't think of a single example of two mature democracies going to war with each other in the 20th century. It's where there was an absence of democracy and a breakdown of democracy that we finish up with these wars.

If we can spend over $3 trillion on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, surely we can find the money to meet the long-term needs of our people.

The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President.

To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

I don't think most conservatives are against access to birth control, but they are wary of funding things like Planned Parenthood.

A lot of people are happy to give money to charities but are wary of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn't produce any value.

Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.

Unlike most kids from Mississippi, I didn't grow up hunting... But I understand that freedom to own a firearm - for recreation or self-protection - is a constitutional issue. And when government tries to infringe upon a constitutional right, we must be extremely wary and cautious.

A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction.

If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.

Washington treats Social Security like a Ponzi scheme.

I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

I really enjoyed my time in state government. I thought we made a difference. I liked being a part of that effort. I had a different experience in Washington.

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.

We're told compassion comes not from generosity but from compliance. We're told kindness means raiding a man's hard-earned wages and sending them off to Washington so they - not you - may dole them out in courtesies and indulgences.

I am having nothing to do with this so-called civil rights bill. The liberal left-wingers have passed it. Now let them employ some pinknik social engineers in Washington, D.C., to figure out what to do with it.