Quotes About Government

There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.

Where is love exchanged? Where is the love felt when a state administrator stuffs a welfare check into an outgoing mail?

What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?

I would love having the job of president because I know how to do it. I know what the country needs.

If the customer loves you, the government will have to love you.

Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.

Love is bigger than government.

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

I would love to be able to serve in office in some capacity with Romney as president.

Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.

The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.

I love paying tax so much, the sight of a gritter lorry gives me an erection.

I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

We've been at this 56 years and ... we love saying that we are a country in revolution, trying to create socialism, and we form part of a single party called the Communist Party.

We believe in a government strong enough to use words like "love" and "compassion" and smart enough to convert our noblest aspirations into practical realities.

Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.

Politicians love change, but of details only.

I love all of the government conspiracy stuff. I love all of the shady backroom White House dealings that are going on, and all of the politics involved. That kind of stuff is just fascinating to me.

Because the government is taking practically every penny of profit that the two companies generate to shrink the federal deficit, Fannie and Freddie have not been allowed to rebuild any capital, which could absorb losses in the event of another downturn in the housing market.

Uncle Avery, who was not only postmaster but mayor of Pitchfork as well.

Prohibition may be the greatest gift any government ever gave its citizens. A barrel of beer cost $4 to make and sold for $55. A case of spiritous liquor cost $20 to produce and earned $90--and all this without taxes.

The Forest Service is truly an extraordinary institution. A lot of people, seeing that word forest in the title, assume it has something to do with looking after trees. In fact, no—though that was the original plan.

They were Republicans, Nixon Republicans, and so didn't subscribe to the notion that laws are supposed to apply to all people equally.