Quotes of: Washington-state Keyword

Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

Mitch Daniels

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

Mitch Daniels

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

Mitch Daniels

Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.

Madeleine M. Kunin

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

Mitch McConnell

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.

Mitt Romney

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Otto von Bismarck

I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?

Paul Keating

My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.

Peter MacKay

Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the government and the Opposition.

Pratibha Patil

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

Paul Ryan

I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.

Paul Wolfowitz

Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.

Richard Holbrooke

I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

Rand Paul

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

Rand Paul

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Reagan

Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.

Rick Santorum

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

Sheikh Hasina

One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.

Scott Walker

The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.

Todd Akin

I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.

Todd Akin