Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
Steve Allen
GovernmentMafiaBankOutImprove
Whether you're managing the finances for a household of one, a business of a thousand, or a government of several hundred million, there's no more important statement of fiscal intent you can make than putting together a responsible budget - one that acknowledges its available means, and makes a reasonable attempt to live within them.
Roy Blunt
LiveBusinessTogetherGovernment
There is an old maxim which states that good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment. I think something similar can be said of government policy, to wit: Good policy comes from experience, and experience comes from poor policy.
Edward C. Prescott
GoodExperienceGovernmentThinkWit
I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.
Joseph Heller
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Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.
P. J. O'Rourke
RespectGovernmentSeriousDoneWay
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
BestGovernmentUsGovernOurselves
If a British government experienced such a long and persistent resistance to domestic policy in England, then that policy would almost certainly be changed... We have asserted that we are political prisoners, and everything about out country - our arrests, interrogations, trials, and prison conditions - show that we are politically motivated.
Bobby Sands
GovernmentPrisonPoliticalLongOut
Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects into their coursework.
Adam Cohen
BusinessGovernmentLawJournalism
Government has a rightful role, but not an excessive role, to play.
Jeff Fortenberry
GovernmentPlayRoleExcessive
The government should not pick up every single bit of healthcare to where literally 60 percent of every dollar is just in your last 60 days of life. We should be more balanced than that and give people a chance to understand what the government should and should not pay for.
Pete Sessions
LifeGovernmentPeopleChanceMore
I do think voters are ready for a change in Olympia and after 28 years of one party rule, they are ready to put a new team on the field and bring a new approach to state government.
Rob McKenna
ChangeGovernmentTeamThinkParty
When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'
Mitch Daniels
ExperiencePainGovernmentSuffering
And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.
Umberto Guidoni
GovernmentFlyProcessEndDesign
Our politicians are stupid. And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning. And they send the bad ones over because they don't want to pay for them. They don't want to take care of them. Why should they when the stupid leaders of the United States will do it for them?
Donald Trump
GovernmentStupidCareTake CareBad
I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
Jack Canfield
GovernmentBlameControlEmployees
To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.
John Lynch
ConfidenceIntegrityGovernmentOpen
Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.
Polly Toynbee
HappinessMoneyProgressGovernment
Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.
Stephen Breyer
GovernmentCitizenKindSheOutHe
Some Americans, like those working in government or nonprofits, know the consequences of having their salaries public.
Mary Pilon
GovernmentConsequencesKnowWorking
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
Edward Gibbon
GovernmentWorldPresentMonarchy
A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.
Joseph Story
GoodKnowledgeBestGovernmentFirst
Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
GoodGovernmentLookingFeeling Good
We need to level the playing field so that people who buy insurance individually at the same tax rates as those who buy it than get it through work. We need to be able to let people to shop across state lines for better deals with insurance that works for them and their family, not something the government says they have to have.
John Barrasso
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Voters want conflicting things. They want a lot of government spending, but they don't want higher taxes.
Bruce Rauner
GovernmentWantTaxesThingsHigher
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