Quotes about Government
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
- Thomas Jefferson
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
- Abraham Lincoln
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
- Jesse Jackson
This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
- Ben Carson
Both the country, and my party, are beset with division. We cannot bring the country back together unless the party of government is united, and the party cannot unite if it is led from its fringes.
- James Cleverly
Actually, Brexit is an incredibly important issue, but it's not the only issue. And to be a credible party of Government you need to have plans for everything, not just for the delivery of Brexit.
- James Cleverly
Every day, I talk to Democratic and Republican colleagues with lots of ideas about the work we should be doing.
- Tina Smith
No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.
- Dennis Prager
Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The AAP from the beginning made it clear that they were about changing policy and not being a symbol of purity in a corrupt world.
- Abhijit Banerjee
The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.
- Grover Norquist
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
- George Washington