Quotes About Government

Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by the government and insurance companies.

It's lovely to be old. I've got age, experience and zero personal ambition. No body could corrupt me by anything: possibly a job in the government, a peerage, a quango, I don't want any of it.

The Democrats believe that if God did not want them to raise taxes, He would not have created the Internal Revenue Service.

Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

I don't think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights.

Freedom is the quality of being free from the control of regulators and tax collectors. If I want to be free their control, I must not impose controls on others.

Most small-business owners will tell you they don't want Obama 'boosting' them. They just want him to get out of the way.

I think it's a part of being a citizen in a country, to know what is going on and to have a say in how they want their country being run. You know, that's a part of the privilege of democracy.

People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success -- that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.

Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion

I fully understand it's important to maintain the separation of church and state. We don't want the state to become the church, nor do we want the church to become the state.

The people who say they're for democracy want nothing to do with democracy.

Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants anyway.

I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere.

Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.

It is hard sometimes to get the Congress to do what you want to do and you have to keep working at it.

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's the biggest problem I have with them.

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

Politkovskaya was a known critic of the administration. For this reason, one cannot rule out the possibility that someone would want to blame the government for the murder.

PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.