Government Quotes

It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

Camille Paglia

I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.

Camille Paglia

I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.

Carl Paladino

People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.

Carl Paladino

We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.

Carl Paladino

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about...

Carl Paladino

People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.

Carl Paladino

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.

Charles W. Pickering

There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among...

Charlie Pierce

No one branch of the U.S. government should have supremacy over the other two.

Chellie Pingree

I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. government could listen in on phone conversations or read private mail without first obtaining a warrant from a court. That sounds more like something that happened in the Soviet Union.

Chellie Pingree

Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms.

Christine Pelosi

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

C. Northcote Parkinson

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of any...

Colin Powell

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Colin Powell

Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either.

Carroll Quigley

People in Eastern Washington should be confident in knowing that the government will not come and seize their property or farm land. Legislation is needed to correct this decision and restore the principle of having limited government involvement.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.

Chance The Rapper

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

Charles B. Rangel

The only conduct that merits the drastic remedy of impeachment is that which subverts our system of government or renders the president unfit or unable to govern.

Charles Ruff

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

Charley Reese