#government

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#belief #between #everything #government #idea

The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#barack obama #chris #chris matthews #deficit #faster

Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick. ↗

— Jeremy Paxton

#because #been #beyond #characteristic #economic

If our government has a policy, any political subdivision, that limits or restricts the enforcement of our immigration laws, we will sue them! And that suit will be $5,000 a day every day until that policy is changed! This law will be enforced. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#changed #day #enforced #enforcement #every

I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#believe #carbon #control #fail #going

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. ↗

— Plato

#charming #democracy #disorder #dispensing #equality

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational. ↗

— Jon Postel

#any #government #internet #issue #managed

They say that if I win that I'll take away benefits, but the only one who has expropriated things from you is this government. After visiting all around our Venezuela, I don't have a doubt that we will win. ↗

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

#around #away #benefits #doubt #government

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#economic #economic growth #equivalent #government #growth

If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#citizens #complicit #deal #defeated #fight