Quotes About Government

Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.

I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.

The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.

What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do.

The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.

The proximate cause of Iraq's unraveling was the increasing authoritarian, sectarian, and corrupt conduct of the Iraqi government and its leader after the departure of the last U.S. combat forces in 2011.

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

It's one of my government's ambitions to secure a seat for Ireland on the U.N. Security Council so that we can play an even greater role in international affairs and try to build what we all believe in, which is a world of laws.

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

The way it's supposed to work is you pass a bill out of the House, you pass a bill out of the Senate, you go to conference on it, and you iron out the differences.

Government should give citizenship to anyone irrespective of religion.

To simply argue that public spending must always go up and never be cut is irresponsible.

For me 'right sizing' requires that we get both the spending and revenue right. Focusing on one without the other would be irresponsible.

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

I don't want the IRS banging down my door.

I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.

I say scrap the IRS. Let's start all over again.

Washington Democrats see the IRS' overextended resources and automatically think the answer is to take and spend more of your tax dollars. I disagree.

Each year, we learn that customer service diminishes. You may argue it's because the IRS budget has been cut, but I'm going to argue that it's because the IRS chooses to spend its funds in other areas like the Affordable Care Act, bonuses, and conferences.

The IRS should and must focus on the most important and most egregious and the most in need.

Isn't it nice of the IRS to tell the media where to ambush me before they tell me that the U.S. Attorney is suing me?

Unelected bureaucrats at the IRS have a history of weaponizing their power to go after conservatives.

Islam and the Constitution are in clear conflict.

We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.