"When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same."

Government, First

31

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same."

Exlpore more Government quotes

"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."

Anthony Trollope, English Author

Government,

"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."

Will Durant, American Historian

Government, Excess

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."

Jimmy Carter, American President

Government, Wisdom, People, Right

"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."

Barack Obama, American President

Government, Debt, Office, Waiting

"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

Government, Constitution, Rules, States

"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

Government, Decision

"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Government, Congress, Horses, Mind

"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

Government, Tax, Obligation, Vote

"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

James Russell Lowell, American Poet

Government, Democracy, Man, Right

"There shall be no end to the government of God."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Government, God, Eternal, Reign

Explore more quotes by Byron Dorgan

"I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for."

Vote

"If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things."

Talk

"All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity."

Opportunity

"This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest."

Nation

"You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility."

Authority

"If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC."

Burden

"The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't."

Constitution

"Is there decency left in American politics?"

Politics

"I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization."

Nation

"The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple."

Politics