Government : (42) " The way it’s supposed to work is you pass a bill out of the House, you pass a bill out of the Senate, you go to conference on it, and you iron out the differences. " - Scott Garrett " What the federal government can do, especially as it relates to urban, inner-city America, is invest resources that would help create jobs. " - Danny K. Davis " What has gone catastrophically wrong in England and the States is that for 30 years we’ve lost the ability to talk about the state in positive terms. We’ve raised a generation or two of young people who don’t think to ask, ‘What can the state do that is good?’ " - Tony Judt " We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government. " - Mitch Daniels " In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes. " - P. J. O'Rourke " Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. " - William Lyon Mackenzie King " In Congress, I represent South Central Kansas, home to McConnell Air Force Base. " - Mike Pompeo " I think more and more business leaders are becoming aware of the impact of the government in their success. " - Luther Strange " These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost. " - Norm Dicks " The really basic stuff that fuels 30-year job booms almost always comes from government research, stuff like biotech, the transistor, the Internet. The idea that private capital can handle the early spade work is a joke. " - Glenn Kelman