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

  Bob Riley

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Government

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

  Bob Riley

  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in Government

• The people’s government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

  Daniel Webster

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people’s individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction.

  Bob McDonnell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Healthcare, Government

• Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.

  Bob McDonnell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Good, Government

• Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

  Daniel Webster

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

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

  Bob McDonnell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Results

• Republican governors are leading the way in helping the private sector create new jobs, reforming government and getting our economy back on track.

  Bob McDonnell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Republican

• Governments must give to all those who have hit life’s hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.

  Pauline Hanson

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Government

• The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.

  Pauline Hanson

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Government

• I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

  Bob Hawke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Economics

• The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start.

  Bob Filner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Right, Government

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

  Bob Etheridge

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Responsibility, Government

• Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Great

• They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that’s like if a frog had side pockets he’d probably wear a handgun.

  Dan Rather

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Public

• Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

  Dan Rather

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

  Fred Woodworth

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Government, Unnecessary

• Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Rich, Poor

• People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.

  Arlen Specter

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Government, Around, Speed

• Asia’s governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies – and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.

  Paul Samuelson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Young