Government Quotes - Page 395

You do not give preferred deals and dole out favors, lucrative favors, and government partnerships and weapons deals to your clients.

I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.

You can grow marijuana, so the government can't tax you and they don't like that, that's why they prohibit it.

If you behave like a good citizen, and you upgrade and improve your property, your reward will be the government will take more money from you. So using that analogy, you should let your house become the shithole on the block and they'll reduce your taxes and you'll pay less. Be a bad citizen with your neighbors, right? You'll save money then.

Government cannot be your parent.

Governments are run by people. People can be bad.

I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.

I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction.

Government is connected to everything we do.

Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.

My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?

Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.

After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.

What do we have for veterans? Government-run health care. I understand that. Congressmen and senators... they get five choices of government-run health care. Why should a congressman and senator get anything more than a regular citizen does? Why are they privileged and the rest of us aren't?

The Mexican government understands that when you turn 65, your ability to earn money diminishes. They don't want you kicked out of your house that you've worked your whole life for, no matter what that house is.

Love is bigger than government.

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.

WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.