Wayne Messam Quotes

Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us?

The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.

People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.

When efforts are made to shape policy based on budgets rather than the public good, then the needs of the people will not be met.

Of course we should have only the government we need. But we must insist on all the government we need.

The government should do its job. The government's job is, in fact, to run the country, to manage the country, to govern the country. And governance is an important thing, not application where it suits one so, to micro control where it suits them on the other hand.

My family is just like most other families - we rise and fall on good and bad government policy. Politics affects us all.

I know a lot about what government does do, can do, should do.

I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other people who inspire young people, but I'd like to see somebody in political life be able to connect and make these choices that we need to make in Washington real in terms of people's lives.

We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.

I think the American people deserve somebody telling them what is really happening in Washington.

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

The function of government is to direct the physical and moral powers of the nation toward the end for which the commonwealth has come into being.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a "taxing machine," to the contented a "machine for securing property.

Washington is busy with nothing that absorbs the minds and occupies the energies of the typical American city.

The government's duties are to support the people on the one hand and to protect them on the other ... plans for livelihood become plans for the national defense.

While the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government, its functions do not include support of the people.

The principle business of government is to further and promote human strivings.

The Liberal Democratic Party works for Japan and the world.

The economy cannot be run in an institutional, juridical, or political vacuum: the state has its role to play, guaranteeing personal freedom, a stable currency, and efficient public services

A community is business, education, and housing. Without those, the community suffers.

There is a fundamental trade off between a sense of security and a standard of living…. The Congress is the only institution that we have that reflects the value tradeoffs of the American people.

In the India of tomorrow, such of the Princes' prerogatives as enable them to afford a better life to their subjects and to ameliorate their lot must remain. Other privileges, which may be merely matters of honor and glory, shedding effulgence on their personalities, are of comparatively small account when set beside other considerations such as the safe-guarding of resources necessary for up-to-date Government