Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.
Jared Polis
GovernmentPromisesPrioritiesThrive
Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
P. T. Barnum
PoliticsGovernmentImportantHuman
Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to destroy our credit and derange the whole fabric of government. If that should not be done, the government and country will be involved, ere long, in overwhelming difficulties.
John C. Calhoun
GovernmentCreditLongCountryDone
Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.
Bob Riley
MoneyGovernmentPeopleCitizenMore
I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again.
Carl Paladino
GoodJobGovernmentNew YorkPeople
It will be hard to convince people that their welfare is safe in the hands of a federal government when they feel themselves the victims of unjust sectional discrimination.
Jeannette Rankin
GovernmentPeopleFeelHandsWill
If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.
Peggy Noonan
BestDo Your BestGovernmentYouGo
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
PowerGovernmentPeopleExerciseCut
In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.
Michael McCaul
GovernmentWritingIndependenceFirst
My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
Victor Ponta
RespectGovernmentIndependence
My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too.
Douglas Alexander
GovernmentSayRightDisagreeWhere
I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
Jack Ma
JobGovernmentPeopleHelpYouWill
As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.
John Moody
MountainsGovernmentWinCountrySee
Charities should not become the junior partner in the welfare state; whether or not they provide services funded by Government or, indeed, receive grants from Government, they must remain independent and focused on their mission.
William Shawcross
GovernmentPartnerMissionBecome
I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.
Stephen Harper
GovernmentWayNeedBackyardShare
In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.
Matt Blunt
TechnologyAgeGovernmentInternet
What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.
Elaine Stritch
GovernmentI AmMeTalkingWantAm
But, you know, once you're in government, very often you need to shoulder responsibility. I hope the new Spanish government will think about this and will therefore act accordingly. I really and sincerely hope so.
Jose Maria Aznar
HopeResponsibilityGovernmentThink
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
P. J. O'Rourke
GovernmentShoppingTaxesPayBuy
In many cases, the Treasury will get preferred or convertible preferred stock for the money it gives to banks. These shares typically don't have voting rights, possibly to give more of a hands-off appearance to the government.
Jerry A. Webman
MoneyGovernmentVotingAppearance
The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.
Bob Schieffer
TimeBestDayGovernmentWindView
It is crucial that there is a government in Madrid secure enough to engage with Catalonia politically rather than continue the denial and legal obstructionism of the Rajoy years.
Carles Puigdemont
GovernmentLegalEnoughYearsDenial
I have been requesting the government because it is the government which has to allocate the land to build public courses. I am willing to meet the minister and discuss ways to make courses public and more accessible to the regular sports enthusiasts.
Jeev Milkha Singh
SportsGovernmentI AmMeetLand
Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.
Penn Jillette
GoodFearGovernmentGood PersonWho
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