Jane D. Hull Quotes

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

I think governments can't do much.

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.

Government should steer, not row.

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.

To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.

The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.

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

I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires.

…people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things the government does for others as socialism.

A country is not a business and a government should stand for much more than economic efficiency.

Government is a progressive instrument for the common good.

The role of government is to protect the public health.

The country is carried comfortably down the river, and the function of Government is to occasionally put out an oar to prevent running into the bank.

We need government to do for the people what they cannot do for themselves.

The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities....In all that the people can individually do for themselves, government ought not interfere.

Governments are not normally concerned with the welfare of the people they govern.

Get people to think about the benefits of government rather than taxes.

That’s the function of government—to do for people what they cannot do for themselves.

Of course we should have only the government we need. But we must insist on all the government we need.

The role of government is to tax the people to the least extent possible while still taxing them enough to cover the basic needs for government.