Famous Quotes
- The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
- Ronald Reagan on Government
- The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Government
- The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
- Thomas Jefferson on Government
- The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
- Malcolm X on Government
- 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.
- William J. Clinton on Government
- The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that.
- Hillary Clinton on Government
- The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
- Bob Woodward on Government
- The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
- William Ellery Channing on Government
- 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.
- Ayn Rand on Government
- The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on Government
- The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.
- Tim Pawlenty on Government
- 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.
- Vladimir Lenin on Government
- The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.
- Andrew Jackson on Government
- 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.
- James Madison on Government
- The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
- Abraham Lincoln on Government
- The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
- Daniel Webster on Government
- The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
- Abraham Lincoln on Government
- The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.
- Jonathan Kozol on Government
- The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
- Ronald Reagan on Government
- The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.
- Marco Rubio on Government
- 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!
- Chinua Achebe on Government
- The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.
- Michael Bloomberg on Government
- The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
- Plato on Government
- The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
- Thomas Sowell on Government
- The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.
- Eliot Spitzer on Government
- 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.
- Lyn Nofziger on Government
- 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.
- Madalyn Murray O'Hair on Government
- 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.
- Herbert Spencer on Government
- The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson on Government
- The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.
- Mitt Romney on Government
- The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
- Robert Anton Wilson on Government
- The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
- James Madison on Government
- The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.
- Thomas Jefferson on Government
- The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.
- Geronimo on Government
- The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.
- Golda Meir on Government
- The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson on Government
- The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
- Ronald Reagan on Government
- The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.
- John Podhoretz on Government
- The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
- Pat Robertson on Government
- The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Government
- The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
- Newt Gingrich on Government
- The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.
- Carly Fiorina on Government
- The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.
- Muqtada Al Sadr on Government
- The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.
- Rupert Murdoch on Government
- The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.
- Andy Stern on Government
- The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on Government
- The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.
- Simon Mainwaring on Government
- The universe never did make sense I suspect it was built on government contract.
- Robert A. Heinlein on Government
- The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.
- Theresa May on Government
- The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.
- Tom Coburn on Government
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