Government Issues Quotes

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

Foreign policy questions bring trouble to senators and congressmen—rarely benefit.

Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.

Conservatives should be in power [only] when the country has no problems.

I didn't need to be speaker because I needed a fancy title or a big office. I wanted to be speaker so I could lead an effort to deal with the serious issues that are facing our country.

In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.

I think I can fix the problems in Washington that people desperately want to see fixed.

Israel has a problem not because of the perception that the entire world is against us, but because of the government's problematic policies.

That's one of the biggest issues that we see in the question of governments right now, I think, in the Western world. Is that increasingly all of our elected officials are pulled from the same class. These aren't normal people. I don't want to say they're all terrible people, but at the same time, they're not like you and me. These are people who have sort of a nine to five working history.

That there are important defects in the system of the Federal Government is acknowledged by the Acts of all those States, which have concurred in the present Meeting; That the defects, upon a closer examination, may be found greater and more numerous, than even these acts imply, is at least so far probable, from the embarrassments which characterize the present State of our national affairs, foreign and domestic, as may reasonably be supposed to merit a deliberate and candid discussion, in some mode, which will unite the Sentiments and Council's of all the States

We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.

The state of our state needs serious attention.

My administration inherited many problems across government and across the economy. To be honest, I inherited a mess.

We all know Illinois has big challenges. And under Gov. Rauner, things have only gotten worse.

We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

All these dismal things that are going on in the world - the isolation and the sickness and the governments and the pollution - it's so frightful, over the whole world.

There always will naturally be some differences when you form the government with coalition parties. Even some single party governments also face several issues.

It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.