Quotes About Government

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

The president was not the most important political player in the 19th century. Besides Jefferson at the beginning, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, the center of politics was Congress.

People really don't want Jeremy Corbyn, and they do fear the consequences of a Corbyn government.

Chris Christie is New Jersey's concern, not America's.

I've been mayor of the city of Jerusalem, which is perhaps, in some ways, more complex and more difficult than a ministerial position.

I thought of 24 Sussex Drive as the crown jewel of the federal penitentiary system.

Historically, the National Religious Party, which my party - Jewish Home - is built upon, has aligned itself in consecutive Israeli governments with the ultra-Orthodox factions.

I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to create a secular relationship to government 2,000 years ago, and those people were the Jews.

Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's capital and has allowed Israeli Jews to build there.

We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.

The best thing going for us is Al Gore. I cannot conceive how the American people could elect him. On the other hand, I couldn't conceive how they could elect a Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton - especially Clinton in '96.

If the government did a good job of publicizing this information, my products wouldn't sell.

We're getting job creation in healthcare and educational services. We've been getting that all along. It's demographically driven, it's funded by the government, and that's held up.

It's our government; just leave us alone and... let the free market create the jobs.

It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand.

No one knows the Senate better than Joe Biden; he lived there for 35 years.

I personally would have liked to have seen Obama and Joe Biden do much more.

Joe Manchin has been our secretary of state, he's been our governor and he's been our senator. And through his long terms, we have not seen any type of economic development.

I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.

Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.

I have a passion for support for new families, which Boris Johnson shares.

Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before.

I finally said, 'I don't care if you're the first person in your family to be a lawyer.' Everybody thought what I was doing was really exciting, but it was not moving me one bit. And that's when I decided to join city government in Chicago, and that changed my life.