Balance in government quotes:

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  • Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government. -- Rick Perry
  • We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do. -- Nan Hayworth
  • I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less. -- Stephen Breyer
  • In several short years, Obama has fundamentally shifted the balance away from the individual and toward government, and has altered the national psyche from self-reliance to ever-growing reliance on government. -- Monica Crowley
  • In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
  • There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises. -- Jonathan Shapiro
  • I think we're probably more unified than ever before because we're in a battle for survival. Not only for survival as the Republican Party, but survival of the check and balance system in our government. -- Bill Scott
  • The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance. -- Ani DiFranco
  • In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment. -- Dennis Cardoza
  • Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself. -- Jonah Goldberg
  • Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
  • We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs. -- Alan Dershowitz
  • Our democratic values also include - and our national security demands - open and transparent government. Some information obviously needs to be protected. And since his first days in office, President Obama has worked to strike the proper balance between the security the American people deserve and the openness our democratic society expects. -- John O. Brennan
  • Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly. -- Ameen Rihani
  • You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector. -- Mitt Romney
  • The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights. -- Pierre Trudeau
  • Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, although they're not officially debt of the federal government, they are off-balance-sheet debt. -- John Thune
  • We have a balance of $ .32 in the bank . . . Which makes us four-and-a-half trillion dollars richer than the federal government. -- Jim Borgman
  • If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government--a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance. -- Gerald R. Ford
  • I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research. -- Juan Cole
  • The government needs the help of industry. But the reality is companies will balance that against their own commercial interest in a very competitive market. -- Michael Clarke Duncan
  • In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny. -- Albert Einstein
  • We need a proper balance between government spending on nursing homes and nursery schools - on the last six months of life and the first six months of life. -- Thomas Friedman
  • It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the excesses of the federal government. -- Alan Dershowitz
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