One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid.
I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.
What does that mean for a society, for a democracy, when the people that you elect on the basis of promises can basically suborn the will of the electorate?
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.