#gov

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#big #bossy #class #fact #government

We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#believe #benefit #government #life #other

We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#always #ample #anytime #aside #balanced

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.' ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#experience #government #government spending #just #much

You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#birth #birth certificate #centralized #certificate #city

There are members of our body politic who tell us that the public interest is best served when government action is reduced to a minimum and especially when it is kept negative in character. But just now, the nation as a whole seems to be moving rather swiftly and decisively—as is the world as a whole—in the opposite direction. More and more, we Americans are initiating new forms of positive government action for the common good. Between these two tendencies the struggle becomes every day more open and more intense. And as we wage that conflict it is well to remember that the logic of the Constitution gives no backing to either of the two combatants, as against the other. We are left free, as any self-governing people must leave itself free, to determine by specific decisions what our economy shall be. It would be ludicrous to say that we are committed by the Constitution to the economic cooperations of socialism. But equally ludicrous are those appeals by which, in current debate, we are called upon to defend the practices of capitalism, of "free enterprise," so-called, as essential to the freedom of the American Way of Life. The American Way of Life is free because it is what we Americans freely choose—from time to time—that it shall be. ↗

— Alexander Meiklejohn

#capitalism #freedom #government #politics #socialism

A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people. ↗

— Ernie Fletcher

#government #much #people #requires

I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.' ↗

— Ernie Fletcher

#cannot #consumed #continue #game #government

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy. ↗

— Ernie Fletcher

#citizens #government #insulated #look #need

Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues. ↗

— Ernie Fletcher

#among #education #face #fellow #governors