Quotes About Government

There can only be one government, and the president has certain roles and duties, which are to hold the second key on money and on people but not to go and check the government or tell the government what it is supposed to do.

The last time I checked, the president was supposed to sit down and figure out what he wanted and then get Congress to go along with it.

In a tripartite government with its checks and balances, we have lost the balances.

The Scotsman' is a cheerleader for devolution.

Only in Chicago do they care more about who the mayor is than who's president.

If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.

We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.

The reason why the Liberals and the NDP don't want parents to know about the universal child care benefit is because those parties would take that benefit away.

She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.

The Chinese government does not like people betting against the yuan.

Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.

I didn't go into politics to tell people how much salt to put on their chips.

We must, we must cut the EPA's legs off. I hate to say that, because it sounds rotten, but they are choking this country to death with legislating through the bureaucracy in Washington.

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

Chuck Schumer is the face of the ruling class.

The Church's role should be separated from the state's role.

I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.

The bottom line is that the CIA knew before the war, during and war, and after the war where most of these chemicals were and most of these biological agents.

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

I think even pro-China legislators would not believe I'm really a CIA agent.

The state is there to serve the citizen, not the reverse.

I think we should all be proud that we are living in a country where we can question those we put in power because, at the end of the day, they work for every citizen.

I am the epitome of a citizen legislator.

What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.