Words matter. These are the best Government Power Quotes from famous people such as James Comey, Li Keqiang, Cass Sunstein, Asha Rangappa, William J. Clinton, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think that citizens should be skeptical of government power. But I fear it’s bled over to cynicism. It is something that is getting in the way of reasoned discussion, and I’m very concerned about how to change that trend of cynicism.
Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.
Democrats want to use government power to make people’s lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We think that both might be able to agree that nudging can maintain free markets, and liberty, while also inclining people in good directions.
We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability.
Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That’s true.
Nothing for the Left, nothing the government does is ever about its superficial reason; it’s only and always about expanding government power and control over you.
As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.
I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That’s why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.
Maher Arar’s case stands as a sad example of how we have been too willing to sacrifice our core principles to overarching government power in the name of security, when doing so only undermines the principles we stand for and makes us less safe.
Conservatives have deep distrust of government power, so I not only understand their privacy concerns, I share them.
Technologies like PayPal foster competition because they enable people to shift their funds from one jurisdiction to another, and I think that ultimately will lead to a world in which there’s less government power and therefore more individual control.
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
Our leaders ranged from bad to extraordinary. But through it all, the GOP was the one party even vaguely amenable to limited-government conservatism, to at least some adherence to the Constitution over the social preferences of the moment, and to the constraints on government power that our Founding Fathers so cherished.
If the government controls your health care, the government controls you. Obamacare was never about health care. It was about government power, dependency, and control.
Without the ability to talk about government power, there’s no way for citizens to make sure this power isn’t being misused.
