Quotes About Government

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.

People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.

Somewhere at the top of the pyramid in the invisible government are a few sinister people who know exactly what they are doing: They want America to become part of a worldwide socialist dictatorship.

The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?

Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.

I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.

Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don't matter.

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.

If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?'

Donald Trump says he wants to run America like he's running his business? God help us.

I've got a lot of folks who want to get rid of TSA, a bunch of them.

The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.

Both [Donald] Trump and Hillary [Clinton] want bigger military budgets and Hillary supports President Obama's one trillion dollar expenditure to so-called upgrade nuclear weapons. P

I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.

In a democracy, the public should be asked how much security and how much privacy they want for themselves.

The problem is that many of our policymakers want to base sweeping laws on those feelings.

Israeli government & the neocons want US to bomb Iran.

Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want."

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.