The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership. - Alexis Herman
I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime. - Dennis Kozlowski
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
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. - Timothy McVeigh
However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. The real credit for our economic renewal belongs to the people of Alabama . - Bob Riley
You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us. - Malcolm Wallop
We need to get rid of the 16th amendment, and return to the original system that funds government with a variety of tariffs and duties. - Alan Keyes
Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation? - Gale Norton
I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed. - Rush Limbaugh
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
The real reason to oppose increasing tax rates on the wealthy is that it's a good bet they could do more to help the economy if they keep their money rather than have their earnings confiscated by the government and spent on another round of stimulus. - Terry Savage
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government. - John Sharp Williams
Government experts have estimated that ANWR reserves would only provide enough oil for six months of U.S. oil consumption. In addition, the oil industry itself has estimated that it would take 10 years to bring this oil to the market. - Allyson Schwartz
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. - H. L. Mencken
It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government. - William Lyon Mackenzie King
We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant. - Scott Cook
Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment. - Martin Van Buren
In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia. - John Sergeant Wise
Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. - Linda Chavez
ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government. - Thomas Bulfinch
There can, therefore, be no doubt that Presbyterians do carry out the principle that Church power vests in the Church itself, and that the people have a right to a substantive part in its discipline and government. - Charles Hodge
I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government. - Gerrit Smith