Quotes About Government

What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.

I always wanted to do a 'Ms. Smith Goes to Washington.'

The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.

I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'

In politics, acceptability plays very important role. On one hand, acceptability among the coalition partners is required for smooth functioning of the government. On the other hand, acceptability among the people is needed to run the country.

The government's policy is to ensure a smooth environment where all political parties can function freely. The government will take appropriate action if anyone adopts a stand different from it.

I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.

Once every American has a pony then I can - by fiat, executive order or something like that - dismantle the federal government with a snap of my magic fingers.

My job is to be skeptical: skeptical of people like Edward Snowden and skeptical of the U.S. government.

Look at Snowden or Julian Assange. In their own way, they are free without restrictions. They are dropped in a place because of political reasons.

The NSA is already bugging everything that everybody does. Each time there's a new revelation from Snowden, you realise the extent of it.

The Snowden leaks did cause damage.

We should stop thinking of Snowden, to the extent that we ever were, as a hero. We should stop thinking of him as a whistleblower.

So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

I don't think you expand entitlements when so many people are dependent on government and when the money the federal government is offering is going to be taken away from you after just a couple of years.

Politicians in Italy seem to spend so much time giving interviews, they don't have time to make the laws.

You know, I think that the Republicans have made it really clear that they want to end the so-called social safety net from cradle to grave.

When I arrived in the Senate, the moderate so-called Rockefeller Republicans held the balance of power.

The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers put out a statement with these almost unprecedented words: "Certainly we are not gullible enough to believe that thousands of unaccompanied minor Central American children came to America without the encouragement, aid and assistance of the United States government.

The federal bureaucracy is committed to one thing: making sure they keep their own jobs, even though they don't do them. The larger the bureaucracy, the more corrupt and incompetent it becomes. The losers are those poor people who must turn to the federal government for what they need.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity." For

Like any government, it seeks to retain a monopoly on violence.

Let us grant to political government to endure them with patience, however unworthy; to conceal their vices; and to assist them with our recommendation in their indifferent actions, whilst their authority stands in need of our support.

We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.