Government Work Quotes:

The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Government, Government Work

How our government works... it doesn't.

- Lewis Black

source: "Nothing's Sacred". Book by Lewis Black, March 22, 2005.

topic: Government, Working It, Government Work

Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

- George Clooney

topic: Government, Shutting Down, Government Work

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Freedom, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

Of the people, by the people, for the people,

- Sun Yat-sen

topic: People, Independence And Freedom, Inspirational Freedom, Inspirational Patriotic, Inspiring Independence Day

It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%.

- Bernie Sanders

topic: Government, Government Work

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works.

- Barack Obama

source: Barack Obama (2009). “The Inaugural Address, 2009: Together with Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and The Gettysburg Address and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance”, p.11, Penguin

topic: Government, Today, Bigs, Inaugural, Inaugural Address

The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

- Clifford Stoll

topic: Teacher, Government, Cds, Databases, Competent

The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government works for us. Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world. We want and need to work with other nations. We want to find solutions other than killing people. Not in our name, not with our money, not with our children's blood.

- Molly Ivins

topic: Running, Peace, Children, American Tradition, Government Work

Republicans don't believe government works, and get into it to prove it will fail. Same with strippers and relationships.

- Dana Gould

topic: Believe, Government, Republican, Government Work

We have to put America's security first. The American people - we on this stage need to open our ears. We need to open our ears. The American people are not whispering to us. They are screaming to us. And they're screaming to us that it's our job to actually make this government work.It's so dysfunctional under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. It's so ineffective. It's so ineffectual that the American people say, we don't trust them to do anything anymore. So I'm not going to let Syrian refugees, any Syrian refugees in this country.

- Chris Christie

source: "Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate", cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

topic: Country, Jobs, Government, Syrian Refugees, Government Work

Really, the one thing that actually works - you know, state-run communism may not be your cup of tea, but [China's] government works.

- Jeffrey R. Immelt

topic: Government Work

The similarity is that concentration of capital influences virtually everything that goes on. It influences the way the media functions, it very powerfully influences how the government works and it of course influences corporate sector elements, like say how Google or Amazon present materials that reach the public.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

topic: Government, Media, Google, Government Work

The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.

- Sandra Day O'Connor

topic: Ideas, Government, People, Public Education, Systems Of Government

Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.

- Jane Jacobs

topic: Government, People, Accountability, Government Work

Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.

- Jon Tester

topic: Government, Shady, Deals, Government Work

If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.

- William Greider

source: William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

topic: Government, Order, Volunteer, Government Work

We need a growing middle class, not one that has been disappearing for 40 years. We need a vibrant one person-one vote democracy, not one which is dominated by billionaire campaign contributors. It's time for a political revolution. It's time to make our government work for all of us, and not just the 1%.

- Bernie Sanders

topic: Political Revolution, Years, Class, Contributors, Government Work

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.

- Andrew Cuomo

topic: Government, Government Work

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

- Matthew Lesko

topic: Appreciation, Rap, Government, Government Workers, Government Work

All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

- Michael Moore

source: "#MooreandMe: the hashtag that roared" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2010.

topic: Government, Prey, Naive, Government Work

I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn't count. I'm trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.

- Jada Pinkett Smith

topic: Real, Responsibility, Government, Government Work

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

- Jesse Ventura

source: Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.22, Villard

topic: Responsibility, Government, Citizens, Government Work

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.

- Jesse Ventura

topic: Lying, War, Government, Government Officials, Government Work

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Government, Abuse, Glare, Government Work

Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to disarm law-abiding citizens. The worse government fails to control crime, the more the politicians want to restrict individuals' rights to defend themselves. But police protection in most places is typical government work - slow, inefficient, and unreliable...

- James Bovard

topic: Gun, Government, Self, Law Abiding Citizen, Police Protection

Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Mean, Government, Issues, Government Work

We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.

- Mitch Daniels

source: Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

topic: Believe, Government, Benefits, Government Work

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.

- Lyn Nofziger

topic: Country, Government, Expectations, Government Work

To me, one of the proofs that there is a moral governance in the universe is the fact that when people and governments work intelligently and far-sightedly for the good of others, they achieve their own prosperity, too.

- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

topic: Government, People, Facts, Government Work

You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

- Sandra Day O'Connor

topic: Government, Ideas, Citizens, No Idea, Government Work

Mr. Trump doesn't radiate many of the qualities I respect. But what do I know? I've never met Trump. I know he's savvy enough to change his tune according to his audience and I don't know very much at all about how government works.

- Pico Iyer

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Government, Quality, Tunes, Government Work