My father was a banker, and my mother worked for the state government.
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny – they should be setting the example of transparency.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government.
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can’t afford divisive polity in India.
Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to issue commands to the several sovereign states, but it had no authority to govern individuals directly.
If the government controls your health care, the government controls you. Obamacare was never about health care. It was about government power, dependency, and control.
The primary role of government is to provide for the safety and security of their populations.
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
Government tends to believe in top-down solutions, and government fears of bottom-up solutions.
We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn’t.
Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to disagree but do so in civility. If we let the politicians and those who report dictate our discourse, then our course will be dictated.
The BDS movement goes way beyond any legitimate, reasonable criticism of a government.
Utah’s economy stays strong by adhering to conservative fundamental principles: low and consistent tax rates, smaller and more efficient government, sensible regulation, and empowering the private sector to create jobs.
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
