Quotes About Government

I don't think the British or American governments really want to fight the Islamic State. They just want to look as if they are doing so.

The committee accepts that, as the government response suggests, U.K. policy in Libya was initially driven by a desire to protect civilians. However, we do not accept that it understood the implications of this, which included collapse of the state, failure of stabilization and the facilitation of Islamist extremism in Libya.

All the Cuban government wants to do - and all it's demonstrated to the world - is that they want a repressive, authoritarian control; a Communist dictatorship to continue in the island. So anything that we do to try to help the island ultimately becomes fuel for them to repress their citizens.

Israel is not an anarchy.

Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.

It often takes time for the Israeli government to get things done.

No Israeli leader is a king.

This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools).

Italians have famously low levels of trust in their government, and a tradition of medical hoaxes.

Maybe in Luxembourg there's a need for new immigration, but in Italy, there's a need to help people have children.

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.

For Andrew Jackson, politics was very personal. He hated not just the federal debt. He hated debt at all.

I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail.

If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing.

We have to give people dreams; we have to give people hope. In terms of government, in terms of society, that's our goal. You can't have a group of people that don't dream, that see themselves as dead or in jail.

If I lose these tax-evasion cases and others filed by the Philippine government, I could go to jail for 10 to 15 years.

If I have to filibuster on the Senate floor, I'll even read the King James Bible until the wall is funded.

Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.

Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed it when he took office in January 2009.

The Japanese press likes me a lot, but the problem is the Japanese government. It's very bureaucratic.

America is very fortunate to have Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.

I am confident that Jeff Sessions will do his part to restore the delicate balance between the states and the federal government that the Founders envisioned.

Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at least most of it, but also the most searching commentary on it that has ever appeared. Each of them served as president of the United States for eight years. What they had to say to each other has to command attention.