Warren G. Harding Quotes

No government at any level has all the answers.

The public interest is more than the sum total of the interest groups.

The government doesn't have to solve everyone's problem here.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

Government is a progressive instrument for the common good.

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

We have responsibility that when somebody hurts, government has got to move.

Politics is the art of providing for the general welfare. It's the great human cooperative institution. It, in principle, is not competitive. It's an attempt of a community of people to get together in order to solve their problems …

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.

But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

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

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.

I believe in cooperating for the common good.

We need a liberal agenda in which government resists the temptation to interfere in the lives of individuals but is equally determined to play an active role where creative action can advance the liberties of all.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

The purpose of government is to obtain the greatest quantity of human happiness.

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

Administration is the essence of government, and its quality is a prime condition of civic comfort.

Governments are sails, the people is the wind, the state is the boat, and time is the sea.