#govern

What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won't be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control. ↗

— Butch Otter

#another #citizens #control #federal #freedom

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it? ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#comfort #cut #exercise #fails #forbidden

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern. ↗

— Plato

#govern #governs #teach #teaches #wants

For all our current troubles, Americans are still the hardest working, most innovative people on the face of the earth. By trusting the American people, instead of government, we'll continue to surprise and inspire the world. ↗

— Rob Portman

#american people #continue #current #earth #face

I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity. ↗

— Rob Portman

#american #create #crisis #economy #entrepreneurial

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility. ↗

— Colin Powell

#any #anyone #be prepared #become #country

Man is not free unless government is limited. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#government #limited #man #unless

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#deciding #each #exists #gone #government

People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#being #government #high #kicked #life

Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes. ↗

— John Redwood

#both #brought #closer #collect #consume