#govern

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#country #decent #decent people #destructive #govern

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#general #government #interferes #less #private

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#calls #constitution #country #declare #designed

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#barter #benefit #compromise #enjoyment #every

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened. ↗

— George W. Bush

#forget #good #government #happened #out

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right. ↗

— Laura Bush

#get #governors #into #know #lot

Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is. ↗

— Vince Cable

#challenge #class #explain #government #how

So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done. ↗

— Vince Cable

#clear #done #government #i #into

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#benefit #care #disaster #elderly #funding

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#been #beginning #faith-based #funding #government