There were plenty of reasons to suspect Obamacare might have been a colossal failure - although none of them had to do with death panels, huge lines for treatment, a government takeover of health care, etc.
County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.
It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.
I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered.
I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.
Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.
I have a long attention span, and I am also a good scientist, and there are a lot of problems that remain in the organic agricultural movement that the government does not invest in solving.
Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.
War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
The Japanese government has accepted the notion that Japan is the loser, and it appears to be going to accept unconditional surrender. Such a position frustrates the officers and soldiers of the imperial armed forces.
I've been blessed with three wonderful careers: motion pictures and television, wife, mother and grandmother... and diplomatic services for the United States government.
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.
It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.
If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.
The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.
During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.
We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.
At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.
If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don't get onto bookstore shelves.
Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.
The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.
Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.
And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.
