Government Quotes

I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

I think Donald Trump understands there's a Constitution. And that those separate but equal branches of government give us a limited government. And he believes that.

Mentioning Jesus in your speech: Small government. Doing what Jesus asked: Big government.

It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the excesses of the federal government.

Disaster management should be coordinated by the federal government, .. It is our exact responsibility.

If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal government may then forbear the use of it . . .

There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

Coolidge really hated government being in the power business. He thought it was wrong. He saw the potential for growth in the power business. He didn't want the federal government in it.

The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.

Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while the majority lose out?

[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right.

Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.

My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.

Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

I'm pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That's a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.

The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.

The federal government can't remodel every firehouse and buy every new policeradio in the name of Homeland Security.

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones

The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.

Mission creep is not unique to Congress. It is endemic to all arms of the federal government.

We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money.

In fact, the private sector is improving their algorithmic ability to search through big data month after month after month. And, of course, a big government bureaucracy isn't keeping up.

This president [Barack Obama ] has seen personnel records of people who have sacrificed for the American people and for the federal government stolen by the Chinese and he's done nothing in return.

Hillary Clinton: putting big government spending financed by the Chinese ahead of good-paying jobs for middle-class Americans. Is she guilty or not guilty?

We do need the federal government to share information with us. We need local governments to increase supply. We need affordable places for people to live.

Very big business is in bed with very big government in Washington, and has more to do with what the average person sees, hears and reads than most people know.

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

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

The first official statements of President Asif Ali Zardari's new government have been firm and robust. Pakistan is obviously a renewed democracy.

Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough.

We will drain the swamp in Washington, D.C., and replace it with a new government, of, and by, and for the people.

This group of experts [in cybersecurity] will set up protocols for each agency and government officials, requiring them to follow best and strongest practices.

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.

When we talk about the assertion of basically new government privileges with weak or no justification, we don't even have to look at international law to see the failings in them.

I have no relationship with the Russian government at all.

There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

When it comes to federal programs, even if states are discriminating, the federal government should not.

A government shutdown, it isn't the end of the world. It's a bad thing. The government stops working for a few days. We cover it a lot. Polls turn against who ever made it stop working.

We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.