No one respects the First Amendment more than I do. People have a right to express their concerns and their hopes and dreams to their government.
I didn’t need a harassment scandal to break out in Hollywood or misogynistic people in government to know they exist. Anybody who’s a woman, a minority, or a thinking, perceiving male can see that it exists.
One of the things that the public sector banks need to do is to raise private capital from the market and not rely on government largesse.
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
A lot of people feel left out by a government that taxes too much and regulates them too heavily and seems to result in a set of circumstances where economic and political incumbents benefit at everybody else’s expense.
In a divided government, you can’t just say, ‘It’s my way or the highway.’
No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That’s a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, ‘I want to destroy government.’
I think that most people who complain about our government have no idea what they’re talking about because they’ve never been to a country with a bad government.
Government leaders need to ask themselves if they are positioning their country to reap the full potential of the digital economy.
Our government is for the people, by the people – and no one can orchestrate a hostile takeover. We, the people, control our destiny.
Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier, it created a 1040 EZ form with a 52-page help booklet.
Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation… No government and no plan can succeed without it.
I have a lot of Chinese fans who buy my movies on the street and watch them, and I’m OK with it. I’m not OK with it in other places, but if the government’s going to censor me, then I want the people to see it in any way they can.
In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government.
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.
The minute you’re working with the government, you’re dealing with bureaucracy, you’re dealing with time lags, you’re dealing with rigidity, you’re dealing with a slow pace.
The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly ‘We, the people,’ who created the government that Americans still live under.
We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.
We aspire to be a government for all New Zealanders and one that will seize the opportunity to build a fairer, better New Zealand.
Making government more efficient and more effective need not be a partisan issue.
Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property.
