Top 1200 Government Policy Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer.

The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.

We have a government-to-government relationship with tribes, and they should have that opportunity to weigh in on important decisions that affect them.

The best government is not the one that you can serve in the longest, but the government that's closest to the people.

It's the government's job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it's the government's duty to inspire confidence.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.

People who don't believe in government are likely to defy our government.

The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people.

The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't 'We The People' anymore.

Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space

The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

Much worse than the unavoidable inefficiencies of large government is the failure to fund the government we need.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for limited government, but I think the government should decide what women do with their bodies.

When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird!

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.

American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.

I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups.

The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.

Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how -- the nature of the government in which people live.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.

Without computers, the government would be unable to function at the level of effectiveness and efficiency that we have come to expect. . . . Today's government uses computers which are capable of cranking out millions of documents per day without any regard whatsoever for their content, thereby freeing government employees for more important responsibilities, such as not answering their phones.

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

Well, the right-wing policy with regard to Israel - the people who don't want to deal with Arafat, who don't want a Palestinian state - the whole sort of right-wing view is consistent with the view toward Iraq. It's the same policy and the same people.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

Do you people not care about this bogus government shutdown garbage? Back in 2013 Rob Portman, the senator from Ohio, Republican, suggested the End Government Shutdowns Act. So the End Government Shutdowns Act introduced by Senator Portman, the bill, you know what this would have done? Well, the Democrats shot it down. The Democrats don't want to get rid of the weapon they have by threatening a government shutdown and knowing the Republicans are gonna get blamed for it.

I believe that the role of government is for the government to protect the God-given rights we have and to ensure that we live as free as possible.

Government shutdowns do not actually become what the term implies. Two-thirds of the government cannot shut down. We're only talking about the third of government that's discretionary spending, and even at that, nobody loses their jobs, and nobody loses their Thanksgiving turkey. The whole thing has resulted from the Republican Party thinking they bought the farm back in 1995.

The government is not doing anything to help the country to heal. The government is just making cosmetic changes.

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand: neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of Commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing with Powers so disposed; in order to give trade a stable course.

A limited government is much more likely to be a competent government.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.

I'm not in favor of no government. You do need a government. But by doing so many things that the government has no business doing, it cannot do those things which it alone can do well. There's no other institution in my opinion that can provide us with protection of our life and liberty. However, the government performs that basic function poorly today, precisely because it is devoting too much of its efforts and spending too much of our income on things which are harmful. So I have no doubt that that's the major single problem we face.

Madison understood that if you want to protect rights from government abuse, you would be wise not to give government the power in the first place that can be used to abuse rights. That is a lesson we have forgotten. As we have asked government to do more and more for us, we have forgotten that a government big enough to give us everything we want will be powerful enough to take everything we have.

One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over.

Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,--that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses the available candidate,--who is invariably the devil,--and what right have his constituents to be surprised, because the devil does not behave like an angel of light? What is wanted is men, not of policy, but of probity,--who recognize a higher law than the Constitution, or the decision of the majority.

I want to work closely with the government but it doesn't mean I become so weak and just toe the government line.

The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the early years of the 21st Century. They had built institutions filled with lawyers and scientists well suited to lobby policy makers who basically shared their world view. This worked well when liberals controlled the Congress and much of the federal bureaucracy, and when the politics of the time were more supportive of active government efforts to regulate the economy and clean up the environment.