“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.”
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“It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.”
“You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.”
“Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.”
“We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.”
“For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.”
“I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government.”
“There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums.”
“The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.”
“We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.”
“As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.”
“To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.”
“The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.”
“And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.”
“This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.”
“One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.”
“All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.”
“Government does not have a revenue problem government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.”
“Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.”
“If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.”
“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 hope for.”
“The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.”
“The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.”
“I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.”