| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| Thomas Sowell | It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it. | 101 |
| James Madison | If men were angels, no government would be necessary.  | 101 |
| Milton Friedman | The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. | 101 |
| Alan Dershowitz | Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent. | 101 |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good. | 101 |
| Erno Rubik | But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees. | 101 |
| Evan Osnos | If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don't get onto bookstore shelves. | 101 |
| Ewan McGregor | I've always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or government as an idea. But I'm interested in politics in that I'm a member of the world, and I have strong feelings of right and wrong, but I can't get into the ins and outs of it. | 101 |
| Geronimo | The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians. | 101 |
| Grover Norquist | The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease. | 101 |
| Hugo Black | A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. | 101 |
| Jean-Marie Le Pen | The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes. | 101 |
| Kevin McCarthy | We pledge to you that we will create jobs. End economic uncertainty and make America more competitive. We will cut Washington wasteful spending and reduce the size of government. And we will reform Congress and restore your trust in government. | 101 |
| Kim Campbell | To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions. | 101 |
| Louis D. Brandeis | Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. | 101 |
| Lysander Spooner | The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government. | 101 |
| Martin Van Buren | The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought. | 101 |
| Michael Bloomberg | And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government. | 101 |
| Oliver North | We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals. | 101 |
| Olivia De Havilland | I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government. | 101 |
| Orson Pratt | The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics. | 101 |
| Owen Paterson | Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation. | 101 |
| Reince Priebus | Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security. | 101 |
| Rush Limbaugh | You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one. | 101 |
| Scott Walker | I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.' | 101 |
| Steve Earle | My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody. | 101 |
| Theresa May | There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums. | 101 |
| Thomas Mallon | Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that the United States government has no business delivering mail. | 101 |
| Timothy Noah | The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy. | 101 |
| Tom Clancy | The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. | 101 |
| Tommy Franks | If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government. | 101 |
| Veronica Webb | My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means. | 101 |
| Vladimir Zhirinovsky | We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are. | 101 |
| Walter Bagehot | The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other. | 101 |
| Wayne Rogers | The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad. | 101 |
| Brendan I. Koerner | Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment. | 101 |
| Chris Chocola | Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks. | 101 |
| Darrell Issa | It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption. | 101 |
| Gary Webb | After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper. | 101 |
| George Papandreou | Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes. | 101 |
| Helen Prejean | Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons. | 101 |
| Hjalmar Schacht | Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today. | 101 |
| Kirsten Gillibrand | While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve. | 101 |
| Lajos Kossuth | In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so. | 101 |
| Lindsey Graham | The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill. | 101 |
| Malcolm Turnbull | The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work. | 101 |
| Martin McGuinness | Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require. | 101 |
| Moby | I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires. | 101 |
| Pratibha Patil | Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective. | 101 |
| Tadashi Yanai | As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change. | 101 |
| Todd Akin | I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government. | 101 |
| Tom Graves | Let's make it simple: Government control means uniformity, regulation, fees, inspection, and yes, compliance. | 101 |
| Wang Jianlin | Real estate deals a lot with the government. It isn't like manufacturing, logistics, home appliances or the auto sector, which deal with consumers. | 101 |
| Arthur Laffer | What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble. | 101 |
| Barry O'Farrell | No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance. | 101 |
| Bob Thaves | I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it. | 101 |
| Brad D. Smith | Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier, it created a 1040 EZ form with a 52-page help booklet. | 101 |
| Chuck Todd | From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left Behind, President Bush presided over a major expansion of the reach of government. | 101 |
| Clement Attlee | Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. | 101 |
| Chris Carter | It's so interesting that when I finished 'The X-Files' in 2002, the - call it the political and cultural climate in America - was one of fear, and trust of government. Because we put ourselves in the hands of the authority who was going to protect us. And, you know, we gave up a lot of our liberties to Homeland Security, etc. | 101 |
| Dennis Cardoza | 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. | 101 |
| Dick Thornburgh | The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level. | 101 |
| Dambisa Moyo | A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens. | 101 |
| Don Young | We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act. | 101 |
| Dwight Schultz | We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all. | 101 |
| Ed Miliband | Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen. | 101 |
| Eduardo Paes | What we are witnessing is the birth of something I call 'Polisdigitocracy.' This is a form of government that counts participation and transparency as its cornerstones and uses technology as its guide. The digital revolution is allowing democracy to recall its foundations and evolution is modernizing and reinforcing our fundamental values. | 101 |
| George Allen | The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government. | 101 |
| Jeremiah Wright | The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied. | 101 |
| Jim Webb | The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed. | 101 |
| John Perry Barlow | Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. | 101 |
| John Stossel | People like getting what they think is free stuff from government. | 101 |
| Kathleen Wynne | One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing. | 101 |
| Lyn Nofziger | Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility. | 101 |
| Mark Zandi | The most important point is, in a time of crisis, there is no way out but for the government to be bold and aggressive. | 101 |
| Peter Blair Henry | A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment. | 101 |
| Polly Toynbee | Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP. | 101 |
| Stephen Harper | The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House. | 101 |
| Thomas Steinbeck | From my father's point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government. | 101 |
| Ahmed Ben Bella | I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death. | 101 |
| Andrew Sullivan | Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed to represent the small government philosophy - limited spending, low taxes. Obviously, things have shifted. | 101 |
| Barbara Castle | Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance. | 101 |
| Belle Boyd | If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours. | 101 |
| Ben Quayle | Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion. | 101 |
| Bill Kristol | If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit. | 101 |
| Bill Scott | He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department. | 101 |
| George Haven Putnam | Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. | 101 |
| George Nethercutt | From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history. | 101 |
| James McGreevey | We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views. | 101 |
| Mariano Rajoy | The worst thing a government can do now in Spain is to do nothing. | 101 |
| Martin Cruz Smith | Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB. | 101 |
| Pedro Pierluisi | The government of Puerto Rico has every right to hold a plebiscite, to consult the people of Puerto Rico regarding their wishes. But the truth is that for a change in the status of Puerto Rico to happen, you need both Congress and Puerto Rico agreeing to it. | 101 |
| Sam Farr | Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government. | 101 |
| Thad Cochran | We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well. | 101 |
| Thomas Woods | Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector. | 101 |
| Tom Coburn | An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting. | 101 |
| Tom Lantos | Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves. | 101 |
| Tommy Rettig | Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education. | 101 |
| Winfield Scott Hancock | My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all. | 101 |
| Chris DeWolfe | When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the Internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations. | 101 |
| Dan Glickman | I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly. | 101 |
| David Cunliffe | Socialism's not a word that I use. I say 'social democracy' because I don't think the government needs to own all the means of production. | 101 |
| David Malpass | The tenth amendment said the federal government is supposed to only have powers that were explicitly given in the Constitution. I think the federal government's gone way beyond that. The Constitution never said that you could have a Federal Reserve that would have $2.8 trillion in assets. We've gotten out of control. | 101 |
| Denis Kearney | They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt. | 101 |
| Diane Watson | The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots. | 101 |
| Gerry Spence | Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it. | 101 |
| James Bovard | People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests. | 101 |
| Jonah Goldberg | 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. | 101 |
| Laurie Garrett | What public health really is is a trust. That's why I used the term 'Betrayal of Trust' as the title of my book. It's a trust between the government and the people. | 101 |
| Lionel Jospin | We must lead in a different way... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with the government for its implementation. | 101 |
| Lynne Reid Banks | The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath - the postwar Labour government, the cold war, the arrival of the New Look in fashion, etc. But I remember it as a very exciting time - a pioneering, rule-breaking time, especially for the young. | 101 |
| Pete Stark | Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights. | 101 |
| Sidney Altman | Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government. | 101 |
| Arthur Hertzberg | Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad. | 101 |
| Arthur Levitt | Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology. | 101 |
| Auberon Herbert | If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves. | 101 |
| Ben Linder | It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people. | 101 |
| Deidre Hall | Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years. | 101 |
| Dirk Kempthorne | Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners. | 101 |
| Lloyd Bentsen | I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government. | 101 |
| Stafford Cripps | Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion. | 101 |
| Steve Stockman | The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible. | 101 |
| Robert Higgs | We need to have a modicum of faith in people's common sense, creativity and will to survive and prosper even in the face of great difficulties and obstacles. If people could keep society running in the aftermath of the Black Death, they could keep it running after the U.S. government defaulted on its debt. | 101 |
| Jennifer Pahlka | We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work. | 101 |
| Ralph Bellamy | I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality. | 101 |
| Robert Kocharian | I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government. | 101 |
| Mark Sanford | Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss. | 101 |
| John Amery | It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism. | 101 |
| Johnny Isakson | In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of. | 101 |
| Mackenzie King | Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. | 101 |
| Mark Levin | That's not how national security works... I don't care what the Supreme Court said 30 years ago or what some judge said 15 minutes ago. This is America, and our government is collecting way too damn much data on we the private citizens! | 101 |
| Jacob K. Javits | When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government. | 101 |
| Matthew Continetti | The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people. | 101 |
| Mike Turner | Americans should not have to wonder if their government is actively looking to subvert them or their political views. We live in a nation where respect for differing beliefs and a vibrant political discourse play an important role in shaping our government. | 101 |
| Justin Amash | I follow a set of principles, I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom and individual liberty. | 101 |
| John Reed | In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt. | 101 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. | 102 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. | 102 |
| Alan Shepard | It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. | 102 |
| Andrew Cuomo | The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act. | 102 |
| Buenaventura Durruti | No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges. | 102 |
| Evan Osnos | The Beijing government avidly asserts its control over matters of reincarnation as a way of securing the loyalty and political complexion of influential Tibetan figures. | 102 |
| Floyd Abrams | I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case. | 102 |
| Franklin Pierce | The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. | 102 |
| George Will | Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government. | 102 |
| Gerald R. Ford | A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. | 102 |
| Grover Norquist | The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat. | 102 |
| Henry L. Stimson | There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated. | 102 |
| James Monroe | The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil. | 102 |
| Jesse Ventura | Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens. | 102 |
| John C. Calhoun | Our government is deeply disordered; its credit is impaired; its debt increasing; its expenditures extravagant and wasteful; its disbursements without efficient accountability; and its taxes (for duties are but taxes) enormous, unequal, and oppressive to the great producing classes of the country. | 102 |
| Li Keqiang | Innovation is the running theme and spirit of the policies adopted by the Chinese government, and it is the banner that we will always hold high. | 102 |
| Lysander Spooner | But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. | 102 |
| Marquis de Lafayette | When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. | 102 |
| Maynard James Keenan | Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily. | 102 |
| Murray Rothbard | The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a 'money illusion' among workers, i.e., on the belief that while, through unions and government, they will keep money wage rates from falling, they will also accept a fall in real wage rates via higher prices. | 102 |
| Noah Webster | No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. | 102 |
| Paul Ryan | Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government. | 102 |
| Rand Paul | I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back. | 102 |
| Richard J. Daley | Good government is good politics. | 102 |
| Ted Cruz | This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty. | 102 |
| Thomas Frank | Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains. | 102 |
| Vint Cerf | We have already discovered how quickly we become dependent on the Internet and its applications for business, government and research, so it is not surprising that we are finding that we can apply this technology to enable or facilitate our social interactions as well. | 102 |
| William Henry Harrison | I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. | 102 |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski | Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire. | 102 |
| Abdolkarim Soroush | 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. | 102 |
| Adam Weishaupt | When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished. | 102 |
| Andrew Young | Everything that has happened in my life is because of good government and because the United States of America was the greatest nation on the face of the earth. | 102 |
| Bruce Schneier | There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government. | 102 |
| Charlie Pierce | For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us. | 102 |
| Dalton Trumbo | Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility. | 102 |
| David Miliband | The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the myth that the Treasury either knows best or can run it all. It just doesn't. | 102 |
| Diplo | When I was fifteen, I used to run around reading 'Adbusters' and dumpster diving, trying to find ways to make the U.S. government unwind into chaos through hardcore punk and metal. | 102 |
| Donald Sutherland | No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had. | 102 |
| Ferdinand Mount | We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government. | 102 |
| Franklin Graham | We have taken God out of our education system. We have taken Him out of government. You have lawyers that sue you every time you mention the name of Jesus Christ in any public forum. | 102 |
| Gary Coleman | I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government. | 102 |
| Gary Webb | You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff. | 102 |
| George J. Mitchell | What is good about the United States is the sense that you can disagree with the government and not be seen as unpatriotic, although many in the government will try to make you seem unpatriotic. | 102 |
| I. F. Stone | Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed. | 102 |
| John Acton | The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. | 102 |
| John Boehner | Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget. | 102 |
| Joseph de Maistre | Every country has the government it deserves. | 102 |
| Laura Ingraham | South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government. | 102 |
| Luke Scott | Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people. | 102 |
| Marsha Blackburn | I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program. | 102 |
| Meir Kahane | I see all this and know that if we are to save the Jewish state and its three-and-a-half million Jews from terrible horrors, we must rise up and demand a fundamental change in the very system of government. | 102 |
| Mitch Daniels | Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make. | 102 |
| Nathan Meyer Rothschild | Who controls the issuance of money controls the government! | 102 |
| Pratibha Patil | Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society. | 102 |
| Roy Moore | But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government. | 102 |
| Steve King | Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. | 102 |
| Tim Scott | If the small government concept grows, we have fewer dollars leaving our pockets, we have more folks motivated to make a profit. | 102 |
| Wen Jiabao | It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people. | 102 |
| William Weld | In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. | 102 |
| Betty Hill | So actually we didn't have any contacts with UFO organizations. It was all strictly government. | 102 |
| Ernest Istook | Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away. | 102 |
| Fred Woodworth | If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also. | 102 |
| Gautam Adani | Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe. | 102 |
| George Noory | We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees. | 102 |
| Gouverneur Morris | Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation. | 102 |
| John Stossel | I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better. | 102 |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do. | 102 |
| Louise Slaughter | Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House. | 102 |
| Lyn Nofziger | The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. | 102 |
| Marc Faber | If the U.S. Government was a company, the deficit would be $5 trillion because they would have to account by general accepted accounting principles. But actually they encourage government spending, reckless government spending, because the government can issue Treasury bills at extremely low interest rates. | 102 |
| Matthew Lesko | Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well. | 102 |
| Michael K. Simpson | History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state. | 102 |
| Steve Forbes | There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result. | 102 |
| Strom Thurmond | It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men. | 102 |
| Tom G. Palmer | The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does. | 102 |
| Tony Tan | I would be able to provide a different perspective and act independently of the Government in the decisions that have to be made by the President. | 102 |
| Wilhelm Reich | The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. | 102 |
| William Beveridge | The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man. | 102 |
| Atifete Jahjaga | We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs. | 102 |
| Daniel Morgan | Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns. | 102 |
| David Lloyd | When we were talking about this, an idea for this master vigilante, it was an urban guerilla. One of my ideas was that he would be a member of the police force who turned on the government. | 102 |
| Eugene Fama | State constitutions typically provide that the state first has to service its debt, then make it pension payments, and then pay for services. What we don't know is whether that order will be enforced. And ultimately, the busted state is going to be looking to the federal government for a bailout. Think Greece, but on a much bigger scale. | 102 |
| Jan Brewer | Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government coming in, writing all these rules and regulations and telling us that we can't do this and we can't do that. We need concise, clear answers. | 102 |
| Manmohan Singh | Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India. | 102 |
| Mikko Hypponen | Governmental surveillance is not about the government collecting the information you're sharing publicly and willingly; it's about collecting the information you don't think you're sharing at all, such as the online searches you do on search engines... or private emails or text messages... or the location of your mobile phone at any time. | 102 |
| Pat Roberts | We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces. | 102 |
| Richard J. Codey | It has always been the role of government to help solve problems, including and especially health crises. Obesity is a health epidemic across our country, and we have a responsibility as a government and a society to do all we can to promote good nutrition and healthy eating so we can reverse this alarming trend. | 102 |
| Steve Allen | Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. | 102 |
| Thomas Francis Meagher | A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation. | 102 |
| Cal Thomas | In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it. | 102 |
| Diane Watson | It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served. | 102 |
| Dixie Lee Ray | The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation. | 102 |
| Leonard Peltier | The FBI has always supported big business and big government. | 102 |
| Terry Gou | Businesses should be focused on business, and social responsibility should be government responsibility. | 102 |
| Terry Savage | But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times? | 102 |
| Allan Sloan | If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was. | 102 |
| Anthony Albanese | Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains. | 102 |
| Mia Love | The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise. | 102 |
| Michael Badnarik | When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens. | 102 |
| Alexander Woollcott | I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. | 102 |
| Cornelius Nepos | No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill. | 102 |
| Jose Ramos-Horta | The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of people who were, in one way or another, affected by the violence either directly or indirectly. | 102 |
| Robin Chase | There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues whose work confirms, amplifies, and stretches my own thinking. | 102 |
| Stanley Ho | Because I became a refugee in Macau during 1941, we had this war in Hong Kong, I fought for the government as an air raid warden for 15 days. Our government surrendered, Hong Kong Government surrendered, so I took a junk and came to Macau in 16 hours and I was a refugee, so that's why I was so much indebted to Macau. | 102 |
| Charles Ruff | The only conduct that merits the drastic remedy of impeachment is that which subverts our system of government or renders the president unfit or unable to govern. | 102 |
| Richard Mentor Johnson | What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small. | 102 |
| John Perkins | Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we've been very successful. | 102 |
| Mark Levin | What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it. | 102 |
| John Negroponte | We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces. | 102 |
| John Warner | As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden. | 102 |
| Jack Anderson | The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. | 102 |
| James Meredith | I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen. | 102 |
| Joseph Story | A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government. | 102 |
| John A. Logan | I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established. | 102 |
| John Sharp Williams | My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government. | 102 |
| Edward Snowden | I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building. | 103 |
| Ansel Adams | It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. | 103 |
| Andrew Johnson | The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people. | 103 |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan | The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. | 103 |
| Derek Bok | Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity and competitiveness, improve the quality of government, and overcome the problems of illiteracy, miseducation, and unemployment. | 103 |
| Evo Morales | In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes,' is committed to ending the colonialism, racism and exclusion that many of our people lived under for many centuries. | 103 |
| Gerald R. Ford | Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. | 103 |
| Glenn Greenwald | Many of the benefits from keeping terrorism fear levels high are obvious. Private corporations suck up massive amounts of Homeland Security cash as long as that fear persists, while government officials in the National Security and Surveillance State can claim unlimited powers and operate with unlimited secrecy and no accountability. | 103 |
| Grover Norquist | Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty. | 103 |
| Henry Clay | Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. | 103 |
| Hugo Chavez | I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States. | 103 |
| Ismail Haniyeh | In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively. | 103 |
| Jerry Garcia | I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come. | 103 |
| John Quincy Adams | The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. | 103 |
| Kevin McCarthy | Our government has failed us. From the billion-dollar bailouts to the 'stimulus' package that failed to stimulate to the government takeover of health care, you cried 'Stop!'... but the Democratic Majority in Washington has refused to listen. | 103 |
| Lord Acton | Socialism means slavery. | 103 |
| Louis D. Brandeis | Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. | 103 |
| Lysander Spooner | The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers. | 103 |
| Mitch McConnell | Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out? | 103 |
| Narendra Modi | Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion. | 103 |
| Olympia Snowe | I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America. | 103 |
| Paul Ryan | Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives? | 103 |
| Ron Paul | When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads. | 103 |
| Scott Walker | But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips. | 103 |
| Simon Mainwaring | Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others. | 103 |
| Wendy Davis | I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government, where you start has nothing to do with how far you go. | 103 |
| William Henry Harrison | All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. | 103 |
| William O. Douglas | The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. | 103 |
| Chris Chocola | Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency. | 103 |
| Jim Hightower | You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force. | 103 |
| John Hancock | The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it. | 103 |
| John L. Lewis | The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government. | 103 |
| John Marshall | The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection. | 103 |
| Rick Santorum | You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies. | 103 |
| Sharron Angle | And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government. | 103 |
| Tim Scott | We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't. | 103 |
| Alexander Chase | When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government. | 103 |
| Amity Shlaes | The result of the collaborative culture is that corporations or government institutions focus intensely on internal culture and pour their energy into achieving minuscule policy changes relating to workplace efficiency, gender or race. | 103 |
| Brian Schweitzer | Good ideas are the backbone of good government. | 103 |
| Caleb Cushing | We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids. | 103 |
| Charlton Heston | Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent. | 103 |
| Don Young | I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution. | 103 |
| Estelle Morris | However, the Government has made it clear that we do not encourage the recruitment of teachers from developing nations where there may be an adverse effect on the economy. | 103 |
| Fred Woodworth | Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. | 103 |
| Marc Faber | The positive aspect of my negative view is essentially that you shouldn't own cash and government bonds, but you should be in assets like real estate or equities or precious metals or in commodities. | 103 |
| P. Chidambaram | A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context. | 103 |
| Steve Forbes | We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values. | 103 |
| Steve Southerland | I believe that the federal government, like a raging river, has expanded upon the barriers and the boundaries of its banks, and unfortunately, it is flooding all of America with its encroachment. | 103 |
| Tim Walberg | Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams. | 103 |
| William E. Simon | The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated. | 103 |
| Artur Davis | And in terms of their crown jewel legislative achievement: who knew that when asked, 'will government impose a new federal mandate requiring middle class Americans to buy health insurance whether they can afford it or not?' The answer would be 'Yes we can!' | 103 |
| Charley Reese | Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible. | 103 |
| Jesse Helms | I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family. | 103 |
| Cal Thomas | People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government. | 103 |
| Mustafa Kemal Ataturk | I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. | 103 |
| Joe Baca | Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government. | 103 |
| Michael Badnarik | The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like. | 103 |
| Rachel Lambert Mellon | I was sitting alone in a grim mood - furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut. But it inspired me - from now on, all haircuts, etc., that are necessary and important for his campaign - please send the bills to me... It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions. | 103 |
| Samuel Dash | Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values. | 103 |
| Susan Faludi | What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership. | 103 |
| Robert Jenkins | It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me. | 103 |
| Jimmy Reid | Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is. | 103 |
| Joseph Story | A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained. | 103 |
| Donald Trump | Our politicians are stupid. And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning. And they send the bad ones over because they don't want to pay for them. They don't want to take care of them. Why should they when the stupid leaders of the United States will do it for them? | 104 |
| Andrew Jackson | Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. | 104 |
| Charles de Gaulle | How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? | 104 |
| Thomas Sowell | What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. | 104 |
| Vladimir Lenin | The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. | 104 |
| W. E. B. Du Bois | From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation. | 104 |
| Milton Friedman | Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. | 104 |
| Charles Krauthammer | The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal. | 104 |
| Friedrich August von Hayek | Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom. | 104 |
| Gerry Adams | For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms. | 104 |
| Hugo Black | The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people. | 104 |
| Ibrahim Babangida | The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her. | 104 |
| Jeremy Bentham | Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. | 104 |
| John Bolton | I've been subject to how many security clearance procedures and I must say as irritating as some people may find them I think they are absolutely essential to making sure that people who work in sensitive positions in the national security field in our government are entirely loyal to the United States. | 104 |
| Kathleen Sebelius | The essence of good government is trust. | 104 |
| Larry Flynt | Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. | 104 |
| Leland Stanford | Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights. | 104 |
| Lily Tomlin | Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. | 104 |
| Lord Acton | Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. | 104 |
| Mark McKinnon | I think that the press has a duty and an obligation to report on local government, state government, federal government - to be aggressive, to do its job. And its job is to report on whatever it's covering. | 104 |
| Martin Van Buren | It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment. | 104 |
| Michael Bloomberg | Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion? | 104 |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Let those men who still have these misguided ideas, let those men who still have these hallucinations, realize that by anarchism, by dastardly crimes, they cannot bring about good government; let them realize that these methods have not succeeded in any country of the world and are not likely to succeed in India. | 104 |
| Paul Keating | I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know? | 104 |
| Paul Ryan | We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds. | 104 |
| Upamanyu Chatterjee | Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds? | 104 |
| Wilfrid Laurier | It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it. | 104 |
| William Henry Harrison | Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more. | 104 |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. | 104 |
| Winona LaDuke | In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures. | 104 |
| Adam Weishaupt | But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents. | 104 |
| Amiri Baraka | If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist. | 104 |
| Arlie Russell Hochschild | In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage. | 104 |
| Bill Owens | Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide. | 104 |
| Gene Robinson | When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government. | 104 |
| George Pataki | When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. | 104 |
| Meg Whitman | You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford. That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this. | 104 |
| Mohamed ElBaradei | People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. I've never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and make the government more popular. | 104 |
| Tristram Stuart | In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock feed. It's environmentally friendly, it provides cheap livestock feed for the farmers in those parts of the world, and it avoids sending the food waste to landfill. | 104 |
| Azim Premji | The responsibility of philanthropy rests with us. The wealthier we are, the more powerful we get. We cannot put the entire onus on the government. | 104 |
| Cullen Hightower | The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them. | 104 |
| Ezra Stiles | The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people. | 104 |
| George Ayittey | What you and I understand as a government doesn't exist in many African countries. In fact, what we call our governments are vampire states. Vampires because they suck the economic vitality out of their people. Government is the problem in Africa. | 104 |
| George Farquhar | We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it. | 104 |
| Harold Washington | Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government. | 104 |
| Jim DeMint | You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party. | 104 |
| L. Neil Smith | I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging. | 104 |
| Larry Niven | We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid. | 104 |
| Madalyn Murray O'Hair | The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that. | 104 |
| Manoj Bhargava | The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government. | 104 |
| Ryszard Kapuscinski | In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this. | 104 |
| Stephen Harper | We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters. | 104 |
| Jack Layton | A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations. | 104 |
| Mike Johanns | The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit. | 104 |
| Rick Mercer | You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals. | 104 |
| Albert Bushnell Hart | In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763. | 104 |
| Leonard Peltier | The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States. | 104 |
| Alan Keyes | The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed. | 104 |
| Chauncey Depew | The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government. | 104 |
| James Welch | Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves. | 104 |
| John Lynch | To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent. | 104 |
| Joe Wilson | One must always keep one's government under control. | 104 |
| Jimmy Reid | From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable. | 104 |
| John Foster Dulles | Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence. | 104 |
| Joseph Story | A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. | 104 |
| Ayn Rand | We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. | 105 |
| John Locke | Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. | 105 |
| Richard M. Nixon | Voters quickly forget what a man says. | 105 |
| Woodrow Wilson | Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. | 105 |
| James Madison | The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. | 105 |
| Milton Friedman | If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. | 105 |
| Alveda King | Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life. | 105 |
| Charles Barkley | Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny. | 105 |
| David Mamet | Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency. | 105 |
| Edward Abbey | A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. | 105 |
| Friedrich August von Hayek | A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. | 105 |
| Grover Norquist | My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. | 105 |
| Herbert Spencer | Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. | 105 |
| James Dyson | Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports. | 105 |
| James K. Polk | Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government. | 105 |
| Jose Rizal | The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating, some day the spark will be generated. | 105 |
| Kim Campbell | On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government. | 105 |
| Kim Jong Il | We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States. | 105 |
| Lincoln Steffens | Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government. | 105 |
| Michael Porter | I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch... because most of my work crosses boundaries. | 105 |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. | 105 |
| Neal Boortz | If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you. | 105 |
| Paul Harvey | If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'? | 105 |
| Ron Paul | I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas. | 105 |
| Samantha Power | What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid. | 105 |
| Ted Nugent | The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. | 105 |
| Valerie Jarrett | There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special. | 105 |
| Victoria Woodhull | If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government? | 105 |
| Walter Lippmann | In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. | 105 |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. | 105 |
| Ann Richards | I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.' | 105 |
| Charlie Pierce | There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among ourselves so as to order the production of everything else that we do together. | 105 |
| Grover Cleveland | Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people. | 105 |
| Jeb Bush | If you believe, like I do, that the world is abundant with possibilities, then we need to make sure we build capacity so that everybody is successful or can be successful in the pursuit of their dreams - not the dreams of someone from government, but their own dreams. | 105 |
| John Tyler | So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations. | 105 |
| Keith O'Brien | My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich. | 105 |
| Mehmet Oz | We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together. | 105 |
| Rick Santorum | My view is the less the government can do and the more freedom and opportunity you give people, that trusting people and free people and free enterprise - that America has built the greatest country in the history of the world. | 105 |
| Shashi Tharoor | In China, national priorities are established by the Government and then funded by the state; in India, priorities emerge from seemingly endless discussions and arguments amongst myriad interests, and funds have to be found where they might. | 105 |
| Tim Scott | There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets. | 105 |
| Tom Allen | Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens. | 105 |
| Gracie Allen | This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances. | 105 |
| Guy de Maupassant | Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. | 105 |
| Joseph Pulitzer | An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. | 105 |
| L. Neil Smith | We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. | 105 |
| Marc Faber | The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations. | 105 |
| Sharad Pawar | BJP is a national party which runs the central government, and if I can take a decision on the future of all these parties, I must be a capable person. I am grateful that everybody is accepting my capability. | 105 |
| Stephen Harper | Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada. | 105 |
| Richard M. Daley | I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated child is not just my problem, it's the state's problem. It's also the federal government's problem. | 105 |
| James F. Cooper | All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. | 105 |
| John Thune | Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution. | 105 |
| Dale Dauten | Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. | 105 |
| Jacob Zuma | People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq. | 105 |
| Julie Bishop | The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation. | 105 |
| Alexander Hamilton | It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. | 106 |
| George Washington | The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. | 106 |
| H. L. Mencken | The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. | 106 |
| Ronald Reagan | The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. | 106 |
| Thomas Jefferson | The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. | 106 |
| Henry A. Wallace | We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. | 106 |
| Thomas Paine | Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. | 106 |
| Gore Vidal | The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. | 106 |
| James Madison | What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. | 106 |
| Joe Biden | No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change. | 106 |
| John Maynard Keynes | By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. | 106 |
| Corazon Aquino | Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy. | 106 |
| Dee Dee Myers | This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave. | 106 |
| George Will | Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty. | 106 |
| Gerald R. Ford | Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. | 106 |
| Haile Selassie | If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment. | 106 |
| Harry Browne | Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free. | 106 |
| Imran Khan | Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system. | 106 |
| James K. Polk | The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government. | 106 |
| King George V | Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government. | 106 |
| Lysander Spooner | The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people. | 106 |
| Martin Van Buren | The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large. | 106 |
| Mike Birbiglia | Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You put up the streamers, and you hire the DJ, and you get the punch bowl.' Some people are just like, 'This dance sucks.' And you're like, 'No no, this dance is awesome!' You have to be really positive. | 106 |
| Nancy Pearcey | Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government. | 106 |
| Narendra Modi | All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion. | 106 |
| Neal Boortz | There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat. | 106 |
| Noah Webster | In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed. | 106 |
| Rebecca MacKinnon | When U.S. commercial interests press the Chinese government to do a better job of policing Chinese websites for pirated content, a blind eye is generally turned to the fact that ensuing crackdowns provide a great excuse to tighten mechanisms to censor all content the Chinese government doesn't like. | 106 |
| Russell Means | In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education. | 106 |
| Ted Cruz | One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs. | 106 |
| William E. Gladstone | Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. | 106 |
| Willie Nelson | I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong? | 106 |
| Zachary Quinto | We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government. | 106 |
| Bill Owens | Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios. | 106 |
| Carroll Quigley | In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures. | 106 |
| Friedrich List | It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power. | 106 |
| Michelle Bachelet | As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens. | 106 |
| Rick Santorum | The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country. | 106 |
| Adrian Cronauer | Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. | 106 |
| Amity Shlaes | Many writers, including myself, have detailed how irresponsible government actions slow economic recoveries. Similar behavior by individuals impedes growth, too. If you can't find someone reliable to do a deal with, you simply don't do the deal at all. | 106 |
| Conrad Black | There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't. | 106 |
| John Stossel | All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger. | 106 |
| Jon Huntsman, Jr. | We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true. | 106 |
| Patrick Chan | If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete. | 106 |
| Richard M. Daley | Well, the problem of the federal government is that they print money and go in debt. That's their national policy, Democrats and Republicans it doesn't matter. And this is where I differ. | 106 |
| Roy Barnes | No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions. | 106 |
| James F. Cooper | Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion. | 106 |
| Michael Badnarik | Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution. | 106 |
| James Q. Wilson | But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government. | 106 |
| Winston Churchill | The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. | 107 |
| James Madison | The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived. | 107 |
| Milton Friedman | The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. | 107 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. | 107 |
| Tom Stoppard | It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. | 107 |
| Brad Henry | No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government. | 107 |
| Clarence Thomas | I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run. | 107 |
| Evita Peron | The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory. | 107 |
| Feisal Abdul Rauf | I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker. | 107 |
| Frederic Bastiat | Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. | 107 |
| Grover Norquist | What's hurting the U.S. economy is total government spending. The deficit is an indicator that the government is spending so much money that it can't even get around to stealing all of the money that it wants to spend. But the tip of the iceberg is not what hit the Titanic - it was the 90 percent of the iceberg under water. | 107 |
| Harold MacMillan | It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter. | 107 |
| Jesse Ventura | I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is unpatriotic. I believe a patriot stands up and holds your government's feet to the fire. Because if you do that, you will get good government. | 107 |
| John C. Calhoun | We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents; and that the power which really controls, ultimately, all the movements, is not in the agents, but those who elect or appoint them. | 107 |
| Louie Gohmert | I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as long as they leave me alone.' Well, guess what, when you don't care what the government does, it does not leave you alone. | 107 |
| Ludwig von Mises | The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. | 107 |
| Martin Van Buren | The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. | 107 |
| Michael Specter | Clearly, some of the reason people embrace alternatives and reject vaccines is that they are angry and mistrustful of government and of pharmaceutical conglomerates. More than that, we pay too much for health care, it's not good enough, and the system is too complex. We need alternatives. | 107 |
| Pierre Trudeau | I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. | 107 |
| Ralph Nader | Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust. | 107 |
| Robert Dallek | Kennedy saw the presidency as the vital center of government, and a president's primary goal as galvanizing commitments to constructive change. He aimed to move the country and the world toward a more peaceful future, not just through legislation but through inspiration. | 107 |
| Steve Wynn | Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody. | 107 |
| Thomas Frank | Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them. | 107 |
| William J. Brennan, Jr. | The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. | 107 |
| Bobby Jindal | First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts. | 107 |
| Jeb Bush | We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end. | 107 |
| Jerome K. Jerome | The weather is like the government, always in the wrong. | 107 |
| Pranab Mukherjee | The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities. | 107 |
| Cullen Hightower | Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. | 107 |
| Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw | I am very concerned about the fact that India as a country does not have a national health system, and I am determined to try and influence the government to really build a national health system for the country. | 107 |
| Ma Jian | My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them. | 107 |
| Stockwell Day | The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land. | 107 |
| Spiro T. Agnew | A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government. | 107 |
| Jack Herer | When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal. | 107 |
| John Jay Chapman | Good government is the outcome of private virtue. | 107 |
| Ronald Reagan | Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. | 108 |
| George Bernard Shaw | A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. | 108 |
| Harry S Truman | A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. | 108 |
| Margaret Thatcher | The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money. | 108 |
| Woodrow Wilson | The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. | 108 |
| Vaclav Havel | I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. | 108 |
| John Adams | Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. | 108 |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. | 108 |
| Annie Besant | A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient. | 108 |
| Bill Ayers | Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. | 108 |
| Buffalo Bill | Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. | 108 |
| Charles Maurice de Talleyrand | Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government. | 108 |
| Chuck D | Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites. | 108 |
| Diane Abbott | The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons. | 108 |
| Edward Gibbon | Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. | 108 |
| Gail Collins | You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals. | 108 |
| Lincoln Steffens | If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government. | 108 |
| Lysander Spooner | Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this. | 108 |
| Paul Keating | You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum. | 108 |
| Sam Houston | The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. | 108 |
| Samantha Power | Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space. | 108 |
| Thurgood Marshall | Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. | 108 |
| Xenophon | Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy. | 108 |
| Alice Waters | The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy. | 108 |
| Grover Cleveland | Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government. | 108 |
| John Boehner | Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government. | 108 |
| Joni Eareckson Tada | Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description. | 108 |
| Shashi Tharoor | Foreigners have a complex set of associations in their minds when they think of America - from Iraq to 9/11, certainly, but also from Coke to jeans. It is entirely possible for people around the world to love American products, American books, American movies, American music, and dislike the policies of the government of America. | 108 |
| Stewart Udall | In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic age into the most mythologized event in American history. | 108 |
| Jane Velez-Mitchell | Agribusiness - with its wicked powerful lobby and its infiltration of top bureaucratic posts - essentially runs roughshod over the government agencies that are supposed to monitor it. It's the rich fox guarding the filthy, overcrowded henhouse. | 108 |
| Jim DeMint | Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps. | 108 |
| John Roberts | If children do not understand the Constitution, they cannot understand how our government functions, or what their rights and responsibilities are as citizens of the United States. | 108 |
| Mary Astell | The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. | 108 |
| Jonathan Mayhew | But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with. | 108 |
| Joseph Heller | Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. | 108 |
| John Yoo | It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks. | 108 |
| Ronald Reagan | The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. | 109 |
| Edward Snowden | All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. | 109 |
| James Madison | A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. | 109 |
| Barry Goldwater | The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. | 109 |
| Billy Corgan | The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills. | 109 |
| Clarence Thomas | And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role. | 109 |
| Edith Sitwell | I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. | 109 |
| Elliott Abrams | Obviously, every dictator pays a great deal of attention to who is running the army. There's always a base right outside the capitol to protect the head of government. | 109 |
| Gretchen Rubin | When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought to bear on a supreme challenge, and with his unshakable optimism, his heroic vision, and above all, his splendid speeches, Churchill roused the spirit of the British people. | 109 |
| James K. Polk | The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves. | 109 |
| Jean-Marie Le Pen | The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier. | 109 |
| John C. Calhoun | A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks. | 109 |
| Maynard James Keenan | But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people. | 109 |
| Ted Cruz | Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message. | 109 |
| Tony Abbott | I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm. | 109 |
| William Lloyd Garrison | You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights. | 109 |
| Charles Horton Cooley | Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. | 109 |
| J. C. Watts | Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions? | 109 |
| John Marshall | During intervals of humanity, some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended, who have been banished by a terror which the government itself has reprobated, & to permit in case of arrestation, an investigation of the fact of emigration as well as of the identity of the person accus'd. | 109 |
| Kay Bailey Hutchison | I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could. | 109 |
| Lucy Powell | These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better. | 109 |
| Rick Santorum | If all you think we need to do to get this economy going and get this country on the right track is to cut government and reduce taxes, you don't understand America. America is a moral enterprise, not an economic enterprise. | 109 |
| Jane Velez-Mitchell | It was gross enough for fast food restaurants to ban, but apparently our government wants so-called pink slime to be a staple in your kids' lunches. | 109 |
| Jose Mujica | Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament. | 109 |
| Jay Inslee | Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq. | 109 |
| Ralph Steadman | You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government. | 109 |
| Abraham Lincoln | This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. | 110 |
| Andrew Jackson | It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. | 110 |
| Robert E. Lee | I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving. | 110 |
| Will Rogers | I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. | 110 |
| Johnny Depp | I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots. | 110 |
| Milton Friedman | Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. | 110 |
| Otto von Bismarck | Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. | 110 |
| Carly Fiorina | Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive. | 110 |
| Douglas Rushkoff | We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances. | 110 |
| Eliot Spitzer | Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs. | 110 |
| Evo Morales | The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia but worldwide. We need to have bilateral relations characterized by mutual respect. | 110 |
| Freeman Dyson | What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford. | 110 |
| Grover Norquist | Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone. | 110 |
| Ho Chi Minh | The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision. | 110 |
| Howard Zinn | When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war. | 110 |
| John Quincy Adams | The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact. | 110 |
| Lysander Spooner | If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized. | 110 |
| Nancy Pelosi | Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it. | 110 |
| Norman Ralph Augustine | By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers. | 110 |
| Stokely Carmichael | There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. | 110 |
| Tom Robbins | Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. | 110 |
| Tony Blair | It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose. | 110 |
| J. C. Watts | The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other. | 110 |
| Jacqueline Novogratz | In India, we now see many highly qualified professionals ready to work in the rural hinterland and in their own towns and cities to tackle development issues directly without depending much on the government. | 110 |
| Jeb Bush | But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives. | 110 |
| Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government. | 110 |
| Richard Lamm | Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it. | 110 |
| Stephen Harper | We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs. | 110 |
| Colin Powell | We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out. | 111 |
| George Bernard Shaw | Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. | 111 |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. | 111 |
| Al Franken | The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. The Freedom of Information Act doesn't apply to Silicon Valley. And you can't impeach Google if it breaks its 'Don't be evil' campaign pledge. | 111 |
| Alan Dershowitz | 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. | 111 |
| David Mamet | The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive. | 111 |
| Dianne Feinstein | It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured. | 111 |
| Grover Norquist | Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education. | 111 |
| Harry Browne | Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily. | 111 |
| Jorge Luis Borges | Democracy is an abuse of statistics. | 111 |
| Lupe Fiasco | I'm trying to fight the terrorism that's actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff that the U.S. government allows to happen, and the foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists. And it's easy for us because it's just some oil. | 111 |
| Lysander Spooner | If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists. | 111 |
| Marco Rubio | For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. | 111 |
| Murray Rothbard | All government wars are unjust. | 111 |
| Paul Harvey | Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. | 111 |
| Rick Perry | Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up! | 111 |
| Ron Paul | Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong. | 111 |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. | 111 |
| Jacqueline Novogratz | The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders. | 111 |
| John McCain | Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up. | 111 |
| Jose Saramago | People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich. | 111 |
| Timothy Geithner | Financial crises require governments. | 111 |
| Robert Half | People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income. | 111 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. | 112 |
| Vladimir Putin | History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. | 112 |
| Will Rogers | Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln. | 112 |
| Joe Biden | Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. | 112 |
| Milton Friedman | Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. | 112 |
| Ai Weiwei | To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat. | 112 |
| Ban Ki-moon | Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized. | 112 |
| Ben Shapiro | Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion. | 112 |
| Carter G. Woodson | If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery. | 112 |
| Chance The Rapper | Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college. | 112 |
| Gerald R. Ford | There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things. | 112 |
| Hubert H. Humphrey | The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. | 112 |
| John C. Calhoun | There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action. | 112 |
| Rick Perry | Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now. | 112 |
| Rosa Luxemburg | Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all. | 112 |
| Steven Pinker | Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and science, gun control, individual freedom in culture and sexuality, and a greater role for the government in protecting the environment and ensuring economic equality. | 112 |
| Ted Cruz | The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power. | 112 |
| Thabo Mbeki | I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education. | 112 |
| William Godwin | Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. | 112 |
| Jon Meacham | The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point. | 112 |
| John Wycliffe | This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people. | 112 |
| Michele Bachmann | The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. | 112 |
| Donald Trump | One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. | 113 |
| Andrew Jackson | As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. | 113 |
| Bernie Sanders | The details of what the Fed did were kept secret until a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that I sponsored required the Government Accountability Office to audit the Fed's lending programs during the financial crisis. | 113 |
| Saint Augustine | In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? | 113 |
| Will Rogers | Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. | 113 |
| John Adams | The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. | 113 |
| Ai Weiwei | Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised. | 113 |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme. | 113 |
| Benazir Bhutto | Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. | 113 |
| Bill Bryson | There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do. | 113 |
| Bill Dedman | The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month, the Adversity Index uses government data on employment, industrial production, housing starts and home prices to label each area as expanding, at risk of recession, in recession or recovering. | 113 |
| David Mamet | When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry. | 113 |
| George Soros | Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets. | 113 |
| Harold Pinter | Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo. | 113 |
| Herbert Spencer | The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. | 113 |
| Larry Page | We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why. | 113 |
| Mike Huckabee | Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing, and it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock. | 113 |
| Pat Paulsen | The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that. | 113 |
| Ralph Nader | 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. | 113 |
| Rand Paul | Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant? | 113 |
| Tony Abbott | The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It's to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won't deliver it. | 113 |
| Amos Bronson Alcott | A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. | 113 |
| Liya Kebede | In 1967, the world health community launched a global effort to eradicate smallpox. It took a coordinated, worldwide effort, required the commitment of every government, and cost $130 million dollars. By 1977, smallpox had disappeared. | 113 |
| Monica Johnson | Pray for someone else's child, your pastor, the military, the police officers, the firemen, the teachers, the government. There's no end to the ways that you can intervene on behalf of others through prayer. | 113 |
| Barack Obama | If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost. | 114 |
| James Madison | A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. | 114 |
| Joseph Stalin | If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. | 114 |
| Milton Friedman | The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people. | 114 |
| William F. Buckley, Jr. | The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. | 114 |
| Bhumibol Adulyadej | The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands. | 114 |
| Brian Eno | Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people. | 114 |
| Edward Abbey | Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country. | 114 |
| Haile Selassie | The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces. | 114 |
| Harry Browne | The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice. | 114 |
| Hubert H. Humphrey | It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. | 114 |
| Louis D. Brandeis | To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution. | 114 |
| Lysander Spooner | A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government. | 114 |
| Mitt Romney | Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is. | 114 |
| Myles Munroe | The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don't. It's a society where relationships are built on love. | 114 |
| Rand Paul | I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone. | 114 |
| Sarah Palin | To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his. | 114 |
| William Penn | Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. | 114 |
| James Dobson | A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded. | 114 |
| Stephen Harper | Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest. | 114 |
| Alexander Hamilton | In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. | 115 |
| Thomas Jefferson | A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. | 115 |
| Ayn Rand | Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. | 115 |
| Thomas Sowell | The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. | 115 |
| Alan Dershowitz | I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer clients. When the government gangs up on the poor schnook in the street, someone has to stand up for him. | 115 |
| Benazir Bhutto | The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress. | 115 |
| Bill Maher | Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable. | 115 |
| Drew Carey | As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed. | 115 |
| Harry Browne | You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants. | 115 |
| Jesse Jackson | No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams. | 115 |
| Jesse Ventura | I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing. | 115 |
| Kin Hubbard | If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public. | 115 |
| Maharishi Mahesh Yogi | I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime. | 115 |
| Marcus Samuelsson | We can all agree that government can't solve the obesity crisis alone. It's an ongoing issue that will require a collaborative effort across private and public sectors if we want to see some long-term success. | 115 |
| Mitt Romney | We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world. | 115 |
| Rand Paul | The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era. | 115 |
| Rush Limbaugh | I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed. | 115 |
| Alexander Hamilton | Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government. | 116 |
| Nelson Mandela | There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people. | 116 |
| Ronald Reagan | Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. | 116 |
| Harry S Truman | When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. | 116 |
| John Adams | While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. | 116 |
| Mike Pence | The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism. | 116 |
| Lysander Spooner | A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will, can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases. | 116 |
| Robert Reich | It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms. | 116 |
| Sarah Palin | People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix. | 116 |
| Wendell Phillips | We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. | 116 |
| Will Durant | Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. | 116 |
| Alexander Hamilton | Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government. | 117 |
| Colin Powell | We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government. | 117 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | To rule is easy, to govern difficult. | 117 |
| Ida B. Wells | The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled. | 117 |
| Milton Friedman | The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. | 117 |
| Robert A. Heinlein | When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. | 117 |
| William F. Buckley, Jr. | I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. | 117 |
| Al Franken | National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account. | 117 |
| Herbert Spencer | All socialism involves slavery. | 117 |
| Jose Rizal | The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities. | 117 |
| Lewis Mumford | The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. | 117 |
| Ringo Starr | Everything government touches turns to crap. | 117 |
| Ron Paul | I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card. | 117 |
| William J. Clinton | The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense. | 117 |
| Charles de Secondat | There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic. | 117 |
| Mark Twain | Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it. | 118 |
| Andrew Jackson | The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. | 118 |
| Ayn Rand | Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. | 118 |
| Mike Pence | For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending. | 118 |
| Elizabeth Warren | It worries me about what happens if people in government are looking for that next job: 'Yeah I'm working now, not as much money as I could be making, but when I leave here, that's where I'm headed.' That ultimately infects whatever it is that they're doing. | 118 |
| Gerald R. Ford | Truth is the glue that holds government together. | 118 |
| Hubert H. Humphrey | Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty. | 118 |
| Mike Huckabee | If the Democrats want to insult women by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it. | 118 |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. | 118 |
| Mitt Romney | On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it. | 118 |
| John W. Gardner | It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. | 118 |
| Stephen Harper | The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government. | 118 |
| George Washington | Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. | 119 |
| Thomas Jefferson | Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. | 119 |
| Ayn Rand | The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. | 119 |
| Colin Powell | When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility. | 119 |
| Herbert Hoover | If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end. | 119 |
| Milton Friedman | The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way. | 119 |
| Adlai E. Stevenson | Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for. | 119 |
| Mark Cuban | I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement. | 119 |
| Penn Jillette | It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness. | 119 |
| Simon Mainwaring | Corporations often partner with government after natural disasters, as many companies did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As a rule, however, long-term civic/corporate partnerships are still rare .But this need not remain the status quo, as many opportunities are available for such partnerships. | 119 |
| Bill Owens | As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States. | 119 |
| Edward Snowden | Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries. | 120 |
| Harriet Tubman | Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living. | 120 |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. | 120 |
| Ben Carson | The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue... A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves. | 120 |
| Herbert Hoover | It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. | 120 |
| Ben Shapiro | Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy? | 120 |
| Corazon Aquino | National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services. | 120 |
| Erykah Badu | Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business. | 120 |
| Imran Khan | I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services. | 120 |
| Jose Rizal | Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously, without damaging reservations, without irritating mistrust. | 120 |
| Larry Ellison | A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. | 120 |
| Lupe Fiasco | The economical policies that are instigated really makes you think that the American government is a bunch of evil bastards. So just because you're black, you're still representing that government, and when Obama came into office he enacted the same policies that we would critique other presidents for. | 120 |
| Lysander Spooner | That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support. | 120 |
| Ron Paul | When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans. | 120 |
| Ted Cruz | One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation. | 120 |
| William Howard Taft | The world is not going to be saved by legislation. | 120 |
| Shari Arison | Change is not in the hands of government, not in the hands of a leader or guru, and not in the hands of the powerful or wealthy. It is in our hands: the hands of each and every one of us. | 120 |
| H. L. Mencken | The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. | 121 |
| Andrew Jackson | The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none. | 121 |
| Woodrow Wilson | A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. | 121 |
| James Madison | War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. | 121 |
| Ben Shapiro | The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat. | 121 |
| Lysander Spooner | The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically. | 121 |
| Rand Paul | You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean. | 121 |
| Ron Paul | If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live. | 121 |
| Robert E. Lee | A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none. | 122 |
| Bono | When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. | 122 |
| Chinua Achebe | The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse! | 122 |
| Jesse Ventura | Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens. | 122 |
| Lord Acton | The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. | 122 |
| Marco Rubio | Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn't help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people who are trying to make it. | 122 |
| Tony Blair | Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government. | 122 |
| James Surowiecki | Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects. | 122 |
| Ronald Reagan | Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. | 123 |
| Andrew Jackson | It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. | 123 |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety. | 123 |
| Edward Snowden | After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government - for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism. | 123 |
| Woody Allen | I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. | 123 |
| Jesse Ventura | Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction. | 123 |
| Ted Cruz | How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility. | 123 |
| Ronald Reagan | No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! | 124 |
| Douglas MacArthur | Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. | 124 |
| Edward Snowden | What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing? | 124 |
| Rene Descartes | A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. | 124 |
| Will Rogers | Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? | 124 |
| Nas | I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers. | 124 |
| Henry Ward Beecher | The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. | 124 |
| Herbert Hoover | When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. | 124 |
| John Adams | The happiness of society is the end of government. | 124 |
| Otto von Bismarck | A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward. | 124 |
| Hugh Jackman | Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '£10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia. | 124 |
| Lysander Spooner | If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a government that shall have authority over the weaker party, it may be answered that the most despotic governments in the world rest upon that very principle, viz.: the consent of the strongest party. | 124 |
| Rick Warren | I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything. | 124 |
| Virginia Postrel | Through the 1990s, 'Reason' was a voice of 'dissident feminism,' upholding the equal dignity of both sexes and supporting the rights of individuals against a government that had gone mad over sexual harassment. | 124 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. | 125 |
| Kurt Vonnegut | I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government. | 125 |
| James Madison | The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. | 125 |
| Abraham Lincoln | No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. | 126 |
| Thomas Jefferson | I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. | 126 |
| Milton Friedman | Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. | 126 |
| Camille Paglia | Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating. | 126 |
| Jesse Ventura | Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else. | 126 |
| Lysander Spooner | If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law. | 126 |
| Alexander Hamilton | Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. | 201 |
| Ronald Reagan | The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. | 201 |
| Thomas Jefferson | The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. | 201 |
| Homer | It is not good to have a rule of many. | 201 |
| James Madison | Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. | 201 |
| Ambrose Bierce | In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. | 201 |
| B. R. Ambedkar | Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government. | 201 |
| Mary J. Blige | In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me. | 201 |
| Michael Moore | I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they're still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions. | 201 |
| Steve Irwin | Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. | 201 |
| Wendell Phillips | To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. | 201 |
| Albert Einstein | Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. | 202 |
| Hillary Clinton | As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics. | 202 |
| Chris Rock | You don't pay taxes - they take taxes. | 202 |
| Robert Kiyosaki | If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you're rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout. | 202 |
| Sydney J. Harris | Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. | 202 |
| H. L. Mencken | Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. | 203 |
| Bernie Sanders | These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment. | 203 |
| John Adams | There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. | 203 |
| Robert A. Heinlein | The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract. | 203 |
| Marco Rubio | We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again. | 203 |
| George Washington | Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. | 204 |
| Andrew Jackson | Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. | 204 |
| John Stuart Mill | The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. | 204 |
| John Adams | A government of laws, and not of men. | 204 |
| Robert Kiyosaki | If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement. | 204 |
| Robert Orben | Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down. | 204 |
| Jack Canfield | I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things. | 205 |
| Leo Tolstoy | Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. | 206 |
| Kevin Mitnick | I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations and the government. | 206 |
| Albert Camus | By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. | 207 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it. | 207 |
| James Madison | The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. | 207 |
| Jonathan Swift | For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. | 207 |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Democracy must learn to defend itself. | 207 |
| Dalai Lama | The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history. | 208 |
| Gloria Steinem | There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children. | 208 |
| Vladimir Putin | We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole. | 208 |
| Will Rogers | It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you. | 208 |
| Andrew Jackson | There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. | 209 |
| Thomas Sowell | Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing. | 209 |
| Aung San Suu Kyi | Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent. | 209 |
| Benazir Bhutto | I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections. | 209 |
| Rush Limbaugh | The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope. | 209 |
| Ronald Reagan | If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement. | 210 |
| Isaac Asimov | When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. | 210 |
| Thomas Sowell | The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. | 210 |
| Ben Carson | The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation. | 210 |
| Demetri Martin | I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major. | 210 |
| James Madison | To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. | 210 |
| Ezra Taft Benson | 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. | 210 |
| Herbert Spencer | Government is essentially immoral. | 210 |
| Laurence J. Peter | America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. | 211 |
| Mark Twain | Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. | 212 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. | 212 |
| Vladimir Putin | I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government. | 212 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. | 212 |
| James Russell Lowell | Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. | 212 |
| Marco Rubio | Big government doesn't help the middle class, it buries it. | 212 |
| Bill Gates | The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name. | 213 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. | 213 |
| Pope Francis | Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: 'Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you don't ask those questions, your governance will not be good. | 213 |
| Simon Sinek | The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations. | 213 |
| Kevin Mitnick | The government does things like insisting that all encryption programs should have a back door. But surely no one is stupid enough to think the terrorists are going to use encryption systems with a back door. The terrorists will simply hire a programmer to come up with a secure encryption scheme. | 213 |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. | 213 |
| James Madison | In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. | 213 |
| Jack Canfield | I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things. | 213 |
| Thomas Jefferson | Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. | 214 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men. | 214 |
| Abraham Lincoln | The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. | 215 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. | 215 |
| George W. Bush | People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened. | 215 |
| Marco Rubio | It's easier to sell cotton candy than it is to sell broccoli to somebody, but the broccoli is better for you, and the same thing with a limited government. | 215 |
| H. L. Mencken | Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. | 218 |
| Ronald Reagan | Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. | 218 |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government. | 218 |
| Lao Tzu | Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. | 220 |
| Margaret Thatcher | Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose. | 220 |
| Thomas Jefferson | Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. | 221 |
| Bernie Sanders | There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service. | 221 |
| Richard M. Nixon | Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. | 221 |
| Marco Rubio | We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence. | 221 |
| Barack Obama | The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. | 222 |
| George Washington | It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. | 222 |
| Henry David Thoreau | If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. | 222 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | The government is us; we are the government, you and I. | 222 |
| Thomas Jefferson | History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. | 222 |
| Harry S Truman | Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. | 222 |
| Richard M. Nixon | We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another. | 223 |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary. | 224 |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton | Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. | 224 |
| Noam Chomsky | As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world. | 224 |
| Richard M. Nixon | Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government. | 224 |
| Elon Musk | SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete. | 225 |
| Abraham Lincoln | Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. | 226 |
| Ronald Reagan | One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it. | 226 |
| Edmund Burke | Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. | 226 |
| Thomas Paine | To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches. | 226 |
| Marco Rubio | There is a role for government, but no matter how much money the government spends, it will never be able to take the place of parents and strong families. | 226 |
| Benjamin Franklin | There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. | 302 |
| Ronald Reagan | Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. | 302 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. | 302 |
| Terry Pratchett | Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government. | 302 |
| Ronald Reagan | The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. | 305 |
| Thomas Jefferson | If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. | 306 |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson | If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors. | 306 |
| Thomas Paine | The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. | 306 |
| Plato | The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. | 307 |
| Confucius | An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. | 308 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. | 308 |
| Barack Obama | What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended. | 309 |
| John F. Kennedy | My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. | 309 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders. | 310 |
| Edmund Burke | All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. | 312 |
| George W. Bush | Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States. | 312 |
| Voltaire | In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. | 313 |
| Henry Rollins | I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon. | 314 |
| Will Rogers | It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. | 314 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries. | 314 |
| Henry David Thoreau | How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. | 316 |
| Hillary Clinton | Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom. | 316 |
| Vladimir Putin | The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine. | 316 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise. | 317 |
| H. L. Mencken | I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. | 318 |
| Bill Gates | You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well. | 318 |
| Robert Kiyosaki | Most of us are aware of the sacrificial slaughter of Bear Sterns. Some people call it a bailout, but I call it a handout - a government handout to some of the richest people on Earth, paid for by American taxpayers. | 319 |
| Nelson Mandela | Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality. | 320 |
| Thomas Jefferson | So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done. | 320 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. | 321 |
| Ronald Reagan | Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. | 322 |
| Pope Francis | The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials. | 323 |
| Winston Churchill | When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. | 324 |
| Thomas Sowell | Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government. | 324 |
| Confucius | He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. | 325 |
| Thomas Jefferson | Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. | 325 |
| Benjamin Disraeli | A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy. | 326 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient. | 401 |
| Bertrand Russell | Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. | 402 |
| Thomas Jefferson | Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. | 403 |
| Hillary Clinton | If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries. | 405 |
| Abraham Lincoln | The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. | 407 |
| Thomas Jefferson | A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. | 407 |
| Ronald Reagan | Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. | 408 |
| Thomas Jefferson | Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. | 408 |
| Will Rogers | There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. | 408 |
| Ronald Reagan | Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. | 409 |
| Abraham Lincoln | We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. | 410 |
| Aristotle | If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. | 410 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have. | 411 |
| Noam Chomsky | A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won't allow it. | 414 |
| Will Rogers | Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it. | 415 |
| Winston Churchill | It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. | 418 |
| Will Rogers | On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. | 418 |
| Dalai Lama | I think governments can't do much. | 419 |
| Thomas Jefferson | That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. | 419 |
| Henry David Thoreau | If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine. | 420 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us. | 420 |
| Aristotle | Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. | 421 |
| Will Rogers | This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. | 503 |
| Thomas Jefferson | The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. | 505 |
| Plato | Democracy passes into despotism. | 507 |
| Donald Trump | Come November, the American people will have the chance to re-declare their independence. Americans will have a chance to vote for trade, immigration and foreign policies that put our citizens first. They will have the chance to reject today's rule by the global elite, and to embrace real change that delivers a government of, by and for the people. | 508 |
| Plato | Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. | 510 |
| Thomas Jefferson | The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. | 513 |
| Abraham Lincoln | Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. | 515 |
| Mark Twain | We have the best government that money can buy. | 515 |
| Thomas Jefferson | It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. | 517 |
| Benjamin Franklin | Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. | 521 |
| Thomas Jefferson | The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. | 521 |
| Abraham Lincoln | In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home. | 523 |
| Thomas Jefferson | I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. | 525 |
| Albert Einstein | Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. | 605 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there. | 615 |
| Henry David Thoreau | That government is best which governs least. | 703 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters. | 1004 |
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