Federal government Quote by Barack Obama

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

— Richard M. Nixon

We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winners and losers. Where do you go…

— Bobby Jindal

...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

It is true that too many people are not getting a fair opportunity to get ahead. We must find ways to help them move…

— Jamie Dimon

“Opportunities are enhanced not by closing things down, but by opening things up. It is by allowing autonomous institutions to grow, by protecting the…

— Roger Scruton

Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it.

— Ronald Reagan

There is no shortage of opportunity. There is only a shortage of those who will apply themselves to the basics that success requires.

— Jim Rohn

What animates me in politics are the economic issues of opportunity.

— Ted Cruz

It's definitely important to be open enough to seize an opportunity when the opportunity is there.

— Will Oldham

Opportunities increase as they are taken.

— Sun Tzu

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

— Paul Ryan

We believe that the government's job is to create doors of opportunity for you, your family and your business. Then we get out of…

— Chris Sununu