Government Quotes

Yes we can.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, “Huh. It works. It makes sense.”

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

When I first got to America in the 60s… two things happened. First of all, I very much admired the cross-the-aisle friendships and thought we don’t have that in England. We have real battles between the Tories and the Labour, but in America there seems to be these — and this was destroyed by Newt […]

There are few policies potentially more disastrous for Canada than to tell all Canadians that they must be alike. There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an “all-Canadian” boy or girl? A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and […]

The first duty of any Government is to safeguard its people against external aggression. To guarantee the survival of our way of life.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.