Government Quotes

Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administrations - has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away.

The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.

I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

The fact is, almost every year since the founding of these United States, our government has lived beyond its means.

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.

The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private.

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.

A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward.

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.

Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'

Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.

A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

My advice to the tea party freshmen: Slow the galloping horses to a trot. Big government was built over decades; it can't be dismantled in a year, especially when Democrats control the White House.

Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.

Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation.

U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.