Quotes About Government

The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.

All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.

What makes people angry and we are on the side of hard-working people who want to get on in life and they see how government is wasting their money.

The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.

Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.

I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.

Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It's just a painful business to be in. It's just not necessarily how I want to spend my time.

FBI wants to know everything about you, and you're not supposed to know anything about them.

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.

As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.

The government doesn't want you to use YOUR drugs, they want you to use THEIR drugs.

There are only two questions about government. How much do you want? How much can you stand?

Simply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.

People want transparency in government.

People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it.

The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free elections.

Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship.

Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved.

If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.

Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to

Everybody else, including the rich people, are willing to pay more. They want to pay more.

A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.