Tom Selleck Quotes

There was a time when the United States government earned the trust of its people. There was a time when most people believed that the United States government was protecting them.

We must be loyal to the forum of our government.

... we, the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve.

To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, not the Republican or Democratic party. I have been willing to stand up to my own leadership when it's in the national interest.

I am a loyal American. I am extremely proud of the work I have done for the United States and for my country and her people. I expect to be treated as such by the representatives of my government and those who report its work.

I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong.

After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.

I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.

It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.

What is good about the United States is the sense that you can disagree with the government and not be seen as unpatriotic, although many in the government will try to make you seem unpatriotic.

When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

For me, the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that's what separates us from other countries.

Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what your government is doing to you.

We have no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

Healthy skepticism is necessary to the continuation of our democracy. When it turns to paranoia, it becomes destructive. American history has alternated between the two .... A nation where cynicism toward government prevails cannot function effectively.

We believe in American government, and we fully expect that those who now denigrate it, and even despise it, will soon or late find themselves turning to it in necessity, even desperation.

The most patriotic and American thing you can do is to distrust your government

You don't want me. You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people, and it's not for sale.

...the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

...no country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.