Mike Pence Quotes

People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

I think people get so frustrated with Washington, D.C.That's why they're so angry with the - the electorate is so angry with everybody who is involved in government in Washington, D.C. Because if you listen to the folks up here [ on debate], you think that they weren't even there; they had nothing to do with this.

I think part of our problem right now in the country is that people feel that nobody listens to them. And that means that they just don't trust anybody in government, anybody in politics, and anybody in the economy.

If you're in government, the right thing to do is be focused on solving real problems and asking what's the best solution to a particular problem.

I reiterate that the rigor and credibility brought to the world by Monti's government are for us a point of no return.

We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.

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

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.

The people want government that works for them at every level.

I want to make sure we are presenting to the South Australian people a Government that is open and accountable. I want to make sure that we maintain public confidence in government at all levels.

I wish I could renounce politics.

My election only proves that the citizens are tired of the experienced politicians who over the past 28 years created a country of opportunities - opportunities to steal, bribe and loot.

A lot of people in America and Europe feel that their governments are not representing them very much.

One hallmark of our era is the collapse of public trust in government and experts of all kinds. But it’s hard to fault the public when so many experts and their policies have failed in such spectacular fashion. The inflation that progressives helped to cause, failed to anticipate, and then ignored is one more example of earned public distrust.

Government should do a few things, and do them right

Almost all politicians drive me insane. These people are supposed to be looking after us. What I hate is that we don't speak up enough as a nation and take on the government.

A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.

People are frustrated. They're fed up. They don't think the government is working for them.

We create the government that screws you, and then you're supposed to thank us for protecting you from it.

I think that in the West, many citizens, especially younger citizens, take their freedoms and institutions for granted and focus on their frustrations with their governments' inability to solve pressing problems.

I think it's important for the people to see the government is functioning.

I think we have a Tea Party mandate, and that Tea Party mandate is for good-government type of things, things like term limits, things like a balanced budget amendment, things like read the bills for goodness sakes, things like that maybe Congress should only pass legislation that they apply to themselves as well.