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" The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma. "
Jose Serrano
Government
People
Political
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" Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T. "
Louie Gohmert
Go
You
Said
" The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. "
John Stuart Mill
Government
Reason
Power
" Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it. "
Mark Twain
Government
Nation
Time
" Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes. "
George Papandreou
Political
Money
Government
" When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you are there to serve. It teaches you to listen; it teaches you to be expansive in the people with whom you talk to, and I think that that engagement gives you political judgment. "
Valerie Jarrett
Think
Eyes
Government
" It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people. "
Wen Jiabao
True
People
Job
" I guess my view is I believe less governance is best governance and that government should not do what the free enterprise and private enterprise and indidividual entrepreneurship and the states can do. "
John McCain
Believe
Free
Best
" To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates. "
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Way
Trust
Reform
" I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen. "
James Meredith
Myself
Government
Time
" There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. "
Benjamin Franklin
People
Fall
Good
" Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. "
Albert Einstein
Government
Nationalism
Measles
" Even a very brief tape-delay introduces a form of censorship into the broadcast - not direct governmental control, but it means that a network representative is in effect guessing at what a government might tolerate, which can be even worse. "
Frank Pierson
Worse
Control
Censorship
" The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years. "
Benjamin Netanyahu
Commitment
Past
Process
" American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas. "
Nikki Haley
Government
American
Chase
" We really need a public-interest government that is not taking marching orders from the fossil-fuel industry and the banks and the war profiteers. We really need a government that is acting on our behalf. "
Jill Stein
War
Acting
Need
" The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. "
Thomas Jefferson
Easy
First
Office
" There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special. "
Valerie Jarrett
People
Roads
Work
" To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. "
James Madison
People
Liberty
Happiness
" We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back. "
Melina Mercouri
Name
You
Say
" Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name. "
Bruno Mars
Name
Me
Just
" I thought the irreducible requirements of Republicanism were being for life, small government, and a strong national defense. "
Ann Coulter
Small
Thought
Government
" I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash - a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A. "
Milton Friedman
You
Government
Internet
" I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people. "
Phil Crane
Security
Government
People
" Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. "
Denis Diderot
Result
Bad
Good
" As an American, I repudiate Russia's or any other foreign government's attempt to interfere or meddle in our democratic process, and I would call on all Americans to do the same. "
Michael D. Cohen
Russia
Process
Government
" The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. "
Thomas Paine
Society
Security
Government
" A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government. "
Joseph Story
Practice
Bad
Government
" Strong government doesn't mean simply military power or an efficient intelligence apparatus. Instead, it should mean effective, fair administration - in other words, 'good governance.' "
Raghuram Rajan
Intelligence
Good
Power
" I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.' "
Ann Richards
Think
Government
Me
" I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us. "
Teri Garr
Step
More
Government