Bill Richardson Government Quotations

We must never forget that it is the private sector - not government - that is the engine of economic opportunity. Businesses, particularly small businesses, flourish and can provide good jobs when government acts as a productive partner.

Here was the government putting this skinny 60-year-old guy into solitary confinement for nearly a year. I have come to realize that it was wrong and I should have spoken out more, although I did try to influence the Justice Department on their incarceration of Lee.

We propose making direct investments in areas that immediately create thousands of jobs, while addressing our long-term needs -- such as constructing new schools and making security upgrades to highways and airports, ... This government spending on infrastructure will create immediate jobs while dealing with our nation's responsibilities in areas like education, homeland security and transportation safety.

We have a good relationship with Russia, ... President Yeltsin was not pleased he was not consulted, but the Russian government -- the foreign ministry -- said that they supported the effort.

Based on news stories last year, some people may think that the department is solely a national security agency, ... But the fact is that the Department of Energy is at its heart a science agency. Forty percent, or $7.6 billion, of the fiscal year 2001 budget request is for research and development .... We are by far the nation's largest government agency in the physical sciences and in building and operating research facilities.

The resolution makes clear how the junta can end these sanctions -- by restoring the legitimate government of Sierra Leone,

Development of this private industry in New Mexico will allow NASA and other international government space agencies to focus their efforts on exploring the further reaches of space, including manned travel to Mars and beyond.

This is good government at its best -- no loopholes, no misunderstandings and no exceptions.

The federal government has failed those at the border and we have to have a solution.

I'm taking these serious steps because of the urgency of the situation and, unfortunately, because of the total inaction and lack of resources from the federal government and Congress,

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