Quotes about Government
Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.
— Mark McKinnon
Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
I'm gonna keep Social Security without change, except I'm going to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse; same thing with Medicare.
— Donald Trump
My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.
— Tony Campolo
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
— Thomas Jefferson
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
— Abraham Lincoln
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
— Jesse Jackson
This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
— Ben Carson
Both the country, and my party, are beset with division. We cannot bring the country back together unless the party of government is united, and the party cannot unite if it is led from its fringes.
— James Cleverly
Actually, Brexit is an incredibly important issue, but it's not the only issue. And to be a credible party of Government you need to have plans for everything, not just for the delivery of Brexit.
— James Cleverly
Every day, I talk to Democratic and Republican colleagues with lots of ideas about the work we should be doing.
— Tina Smith
No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.
— Dennis Prager