Government Quotes - Page 442

We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.

We know that expanded access to natural gas is important to families and businesses in communities across Ontario. That's why our government is developing new natural gas programs to improve access, which will generate economic activity, attract significant investment, create jobs, and break down barriers in our communities

The foundation of Ontario's economy is our skilled workers and innovative companies. Our government will continue its proactive approach to partnering with business and industry, investing strategically to help companies grow and create jobs in this period of economic uncertainty.

In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

We don't measure our people's success in how they're doing in government. We measure how they are doing in the real world and the private sector economy.

The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.

Higher taxes still does not create prosperity for all. And, more government still does not grow jobs.

Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety.

Government is just spending too much money.

Think well of yourself and others will too. Unless those others are in government, banking, or show business.

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones

People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R.O.C. because that's what people want out of government.

The federal government can't remodel every firehouse and buy every new policeradio in the name of Homeland Security.

One of the features of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings was [that] she [ Elizabeth II] would have a meeting with each of them. You'd have an allotted time.

It was the South African Government that has introduced politics into sport by decreeing politically that no non-white person will represent their country. They introduced politics into sport." And Don [Bradman] was a very shrewd old bloke, and he looked at me for about thirty seconds and then he said, "Bob, I've got no answer to that." And that was it.

The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.

When I was quite young, I put my trust in God--not government; and I never get the two confused.

A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy

Building a smarter grid has long been a key part of our government's plan to modernize our energy infrastructure and provide clean, reliable affordable power to consumers. By supporting Ryerson's Centre for Urban Energy we are building a whole new landscape for innovations that will be the backbone for our energy system for future generations.

Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!

What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.

Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most costly boondoggles ever foisted on the American public.