Government Quotes

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.

In the 1950s, buggery was a criminal offence. Now it's a requirement to receive benefits from the federal government.

Historically, it's very unusual after a change of government for the new government not to be returned.

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

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.

To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be bad.

Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.

I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

We can only imagine what would happen to our health care and to the quality of our health care here in North Dakota if we took the federal government out of health care.

There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention.

It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

[Police chiefs ] want support, they want more training, they want more assistance. And I think the federal government could be in a position where we would offer and provide that.

When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it.

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.

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

Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.

As a government employee, you can't testify against the government.

... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark.

The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact.

In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government.

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'

I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking.

Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job.

[The Kochs] they hate big government.

Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

We've got the government shutdown, but the beginning of Obamacare. You know what that means? You can now complain to your doctor about the government making you sick.

The role of the federal government, if any, is to create more school choice.

I don't believe the federal government should be involved in the creation of standards directly or indirectly, the creation of curriculum or content. It is clearly a state responsibility.

I would vote for you for President but I'm against big government.

WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.

The only things that are immortal in this world are government programs and cancer cells in petri dishes.

The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

Not federal government's job to do good deeds.

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society.

Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.

Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget.

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

The Federal Government is the people and the budget is a reflection of their need.

I believe that the federal government should be laying down broadband like Eisenhower laid down interstates.