Quotes About Government

Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it.

This website is the dream of people who want to change the culture of state government.

You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't.

Washington wants ObamaCare, the people want freedom. Washington wants amnesty, the people want rule of law. Washington wants power over the internet, the people want freedom online.

Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.

Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.

What am I afraid of? The IRS. Thats it. I dont want those people knockin on my door, man.

It is America, I don't want the government trying to control more of my life. I want less government control, and I think there are too many government regulations, laws and taxes on the books.

I don't agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that.

"Big" government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places, small in others and non-existent in others.

President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.

Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'

Nowadays, the media have to be there to keep you from asking too many questions, from getting together with other people who might want to do the Jeffersonian thing and call out the government.

It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.

Let's have Michael Bloomberg run the whole thing. Did a great job on this stuff in New York. If you want to spend at least what we already are on the poor but actually get results, go for it!

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime.

People want government to solve problems, but government is often the cause of the problem.

In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government policy is the way to get things done.

I was going to start off tonight with an Obama joke but I don't want to get audited by the IRS.

Rick Perry unveiled his new tax plan. He says he wants a flat tax. He believes that tax should be flat, just like the earth.

I love all these politicians, they all say the same thing - 'We'll give California back to the people.' Yeah, great, now that it's not worth anything, they want to give it back to us.

Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.