Government Quotes

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

Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.

Tom Allen

The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It's to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where...

Tony Abbott

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.

Tony Abbott

There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

Taylor Branch

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

Theodore Bikel

Barack Obama inherited a bankrupt economy, a bankrupt government, and a bankrupt foreign policy.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

I think one of the strengths of Wisconsin's economy is it's diversity - and in making sure that we're doing everything we can to have a state government that's responsive to that and being here and encouraging people to expand their businesses here.

Tom Barrett

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

Tony Blair

I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.

Tony Blair

Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.

Ted Cruz

This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal respons...

Ted Cruz

How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.

Ted Cruz

I do not believe we should shut down the federal government.

Ted Cruz

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.

Ted Cruz

One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.

Ted Cruz

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.

Thomas Clarkson

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

Thomas Clarkson

European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.

Thomas P. Campbell

An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.

Tom Coburn

Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice.

Tom Coburn