Kim Campbell Quotes

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

Is the role of the prime minister to cultivate political leadership in Israel? My answer is yes.

So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We don't need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House.

But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful.

We just simply want to get back to basics, get - restore essentially the constitutional foundation of the country, and that means the federal government becoming less onerous, less involved in every - basically every item of our lives. And what that means is there does have to be some transition.

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

The reform of government needs to continue.

I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.

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

The small elite of federal civil servants and politicians made Confederation work by acting as if the whole country was as virtuous and as they.

Ministers do not function well when they are unsure of their authority or of their standing with the Leader [ the Prime Minister]

The old civic, state and national groupings have become unworkable.

Every amendment which I am convinced will have the tendency to lesson the danger of civil liberty by the central government will receive my sincere approbation.

The Federal government we have today is unimaginable in the perspective of the Americans who debated the ratification of the original constitution.

I’m going to take Tennessee ideas to Washington and make them work for the country.

In the space of just 18 months from 1999 to 2001, one of the world’s most centralized nations [Indonesia] burst apart to become one of its most decentralized.

I'm a very happy, content member of David Cameron's team. I fought very hard to get my friend elected as leader of the Conservative party, then elected as the prime minister of this country, and I'm very happy being part of that team that is bringing change to this country.

If our system of cabinet government is to work effectively, the prime minister of the day must appoint ministers he or she trusts and then leave them to carry out that policy.

Cleaning up the mess in Washington is gonna take a whole lot of Iowa common sense.