Famous Quotes
- Government does not have a revenue problem government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.
- Marsha Blackburn on Government
- Government does not solve problems it subsidizes them.
- Ronald Reagan on Government
- Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
- Ronald Reagan on Government
- Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
- John Locke on Government
- Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
- Norman Cousins on Government
- Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
- Jimmy Carter on Government
- 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.
- Henry Clay on Government
- Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
- Leo Tolstoy on Government
- 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.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley on Government
- 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.
- Fred Woodworth on Government
- Government is dysfunctional.
- Michael Bloomberg on Government
- Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
- John Updike on Government
- Government is essentially immoral.
- Herbert Spencer on Government
- 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.
- Harry Browne on Government
- Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.
- Charley Reese on Government
- Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan on Government
- 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.
- Michael Badnarik on Government
- Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
- George Washington on Government
- Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.
- Mitt Romney on Government
- Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
- Frederic Bastiat on Government
- 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.
- Thomas Frank on Government
- 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.
- Leland Stanford on Government
- Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
- Abraham Lincoln on Government
- Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Government
- Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.
- Michael Bloomberg on Government
- Government stimulates the democrat party.
- Rush Limbaugh on Government
- Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.
- Matthew Lesko on Government
- 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.
- Jesse Ventura on Government
- Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger on Government
- Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
- Ronald Reagan on Government
- Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.
- Jesse Ventura on Government
- 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.
- Ronald Reagan on Government
- Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.
- Thomas Paine on Government
- Governments never learn. Only people learn.
- Milton Friedman on Government
- Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
- Alan Dershowitz on Government
- Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.
- Luke Scott on Government
- Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.
- Norman Schwarzkopf on Government
- Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.
- Sandra Day O'Connor on Government
- 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.
- Confucius on Government
- Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.
- Benjamin Carson on Government
- Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.
- Eliot Spitzer on Government
- Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
- William E. Gladstone on Government
- Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.
- Chris Christie on Government
- 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.
- Vladimir Putin on Government
- History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?
- Jon Meacham on Government
- History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
- Thomas Jefferson on Government
- 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.
- Louise Slaughter on Government
- How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
- Henry David Thoreau on Government
- I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.
- Edward Norton on Government
- I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.
- Jesse Ventura on Government
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