Quotes of: Government-spending Keyword

A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.

Peter DeFazio

The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is denying the governed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's the right of people to establish a new gove...

Mike Crapo

I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.

Tony Abbott

My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could...

Aung San Suu Kyi

The whole purpose of maintaining your power in government is to make sure that you stay in government. You stay in government by finding out who is liable to be against you. To do that, you try and put your finger into every single pie that is availa...

David Lloyd

In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull t...

Carl Paladino

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the govern...

Benjamin Disraeli

I want you to spend the night,” you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, “Let’s have sex,” or “Let’s go to my place,” or even “I really want you,” I’m not sure we would have gone quite as far...

The Lover's Dictionary

Buzz Lightyear: Prisoners sleep in their cells. Any prisoner caught outside their cells spends the night in the box. Roll call at dusk and dawn. Any prisoner misses roll call spends the night in the box. Prisoners do NOT speak unless spoken to. Any p...

Toy Story 3

What makes anyone think that government officials are even trying to protect us? A government is not analogous to a hired security guard. Governments do not come into existence as social service organizations or as private firms seeking to please con...

Robert Higgs

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed

Some Fruits of Solitude

At its core, conservatism is not an anti-government movement, and it's not a no-government movement.

Marco Rubio

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Nigel Lawson

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

James Q. Wilson

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

Ken Starr

Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!

Lou Barletta

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

Penn Jillette

Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

Tom G. Palmer

Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.

Victor Ponta

It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

William Hague