3 December 2020 Eliot Spitzer For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government.
3 December 2020 Kim Jong Il We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.
3 December 2020 Paul Ryan Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government’s role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?
3 December 2020 Fred Woodworth If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.
3 December 2020 Billy Graham I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.
3 December 2020 Elihu Root The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.
3 December 2020 James Madison Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
3 December 2020 Sandra Day O'Connor We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.
3 December 2020 Jim DeMint As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society’s most vulnerable.
3 December 2020 Theresa May 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.
3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.
3 December 2020 Andy Stern The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn’t cost the government a dime.
3 December 2020 Ron Paul When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
3 December 2020 Eliot Spitzer Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
3 December 2020 William Hague Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.
3 December 2020 Rick Warren I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it’s the government’s role to provide everything.
3 December 2020 Russell Means So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.
3 December 2020 George Washington The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
3 December 2020 Marquis de Lafayette When the government violates the people’s rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
3 December 2020 John Updike Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
3 December 2020 Ron Paul Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.
3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
