Quotes About Government

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.

Liberals are very much afraid of conservative women, and here's the reason why - more people agree with us. They want the government to have less control over their lives.

Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

I want people to understand the barriers to serious government in order that more people take action.

People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.

All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco.

In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over.

We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats.

Aligning private development with community needs for equity and resiliency is one of the most powerful roles of city government.

We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy.

I'm not motivated to be famous. I'm motivated to be successful. To reach people, I've got to get on TV, I've got to get in with the government, I've got to get on TV abroad.

To understand the motivations behind Chinese government policy decisions, look no further than their impact on State-Owned Enterprises.

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

But the actual arguments advocated by Secretary Mellon had nothing to do with a "trickle-down theory." Mellon pointed out that, under the high income tax rates at the end of the Woodrow Wilson administration in 1921, vast sums of money had been put into tax shelters such as tax-exempt municipal bonds, instead of being invested in the private economy, where this money would create more output, incomes and jobs.[8

Entre 1978 y 1995, China tuvo una espectacular tasa de crecimiento del 9 por ciento anual como consecuencia de la liberación de los precios que siguió a la muerte de Mao en 1976. Esto contrasta con los graves problemas económicos que tenía China a causa de las medidas de fuerte control gubernamental promovidas por ese líder comunista.

Under these escalating wartime income tax rates, the number of people reporting taxable incomes of more than $300,000— a huge sum in the money of that era— declined from well over a thousand in 1916 to fewer than three hundred in 1921. The total amount of taxable income earned by people making over $300,000 declined by more than four-fifths during those years.[11

Mientras que el capitalismo tiene un coste visible —la ganancia— que no existe bajo el socialismo, el socialismo tiene un coste invisible —la ineficiencia— que es erradicado en el capitalismo a través de las pérdidas y la quiebra

Aunque la palabra «economía» puede traer el término dinero a la mente de muchos, lo cierto es que para el conjunto de la sociedad el dinero no es más que un instrumento artificial que permite que se hagan cosas reales, pues, de lo contrario, el gobierno podría hacernos ricos a todos simplemente imprimiendo más billetes. No es el dinero sino el volumen de bienes y servicios lo que determina si un país es pobre o próspero.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

stability of government and dependability of laws which attracted foreigners.

To suggest that "society" can simply "arrange" better outcomes somehow, without specifying the processes, the costs or the risks, is to ignore the tragic history of the twentieth century, written in the blood of millions, killed in peacetime by their own governments that were given extraordinary powers in the name of lofty goals.