John Mica Quotes

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Governments can do lots of things, but there are a lot of things they cannot do. A government can provide good housing, but folks can have a house without having a home. We can keep people breathing with good health care, but they still may not really be alive.

The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.

Government cannot be all things to all people.

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

Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public is to make sure that the public sector can use all the skills it needs to do the job the public wants it to do.

No government ought to guarantee perfect security because no government can provide it.

Anyone who's ever filed a tax return or visited the Department of Motor Vehicles understands that government does two things well: spend our money and waste our time.

I am always looking for ways our government can help make everyday life easier for Ontarians, and these new polymer birth certificates do just that. Having a safe and durable birth certificate will provide more security and help protect people from fraud and identify theft.

It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.

Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.

All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.

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.

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt

The more government dependents, the more likely that democracy will become a conspiracy against self-reliance.

The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

What do you think the appropriate role of government is in society? The way I look at this job is, you want me to do X? Well, is the private sector doing X with any kind of success? Because if they are, I'd rather have them do it than have us do it.

It is not the government's purpose to make a profit the way a company does, because a company doesn't have to give a damn about the unemployed poor or provide services that are non-commercial by definition.

The more people expect from government, the more biased they become against limiting government power.

I've voted for Republicans who were strong on defense, who believed in a free and open economy but who also understood that there's a place for government in our lives, that government has a responsibility to those of our citizens who are in need and those of our citizens who are needy of health care.

Both America and Britain understand that governments must be responsive to everyday working people, that governments must represent their own citizens.