Famous Quotes: Government

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
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No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.
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Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!
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We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
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There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets.
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Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.
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The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
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This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.
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We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.
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The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.
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More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.
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Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised.
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It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.
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As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.
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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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