Famous Quotes
- I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
- Madeleine Albright on Government
- I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
- John Maynard Keynes on Government
- I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.
- Mitt Romney on Government
- I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
- Oliver Cromwell on Government
- I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
- Samuel Johnson on Government
- 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.
- William F. Buckley, Jr. on Government
- I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.
- Jane Fonda on Government
- I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.
- Gary Bauer on Government
- I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.
- Andrew Cuomo on Government
- I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.
- Dave Eggers on Government
- I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.
- Rupert Murdoch on Government
- I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.
- J. C. Watts on Government
- I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.
- Clint Eastwood on Government
- I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.
- William Hague on Government
- I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
- Alexander Woollcott on Government
- I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.
- Sarah Jessica Parker on Government
- I've always been about less government.
- Kelly Clarkson on Government
- I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
- Alan Greenspan on Government
- I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.
- Michael Bloomberg on Government
- If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
- Paul Harvey on Government
- 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.
- Joseph Stalin on Government
- If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.
- Steven Spielberg on Government
- If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
- Barry Goldwater on Government
- If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Government
- 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.
- Fred Woodworth on Government
- If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.
- Herman Cain on Government
- If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.
- Aung San Suu Kyi on Government
- If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.
- Muqtada Al Sadr on Government
- 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.
- Neal Boortz on Government
- If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
- Nicolas Chamfort on Government
- 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.
- Carter G. Woodson on Government
- 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.
- Aristotle on Government
- If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?
- Tony Campolo on Government
- If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
- James Madison on Government
- If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.
- Loni Anderson on Government
- 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.
- Ronald Reagan on Government
- If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.
- Muqtada Al Sadr on Government
- 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.
- Lysander Spooner on Government
- If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
- Herbert Hoover on Government
- 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.
- Henry David Thoreau on Government
- 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.
- Barack Obama on Government
- 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.
- Tommy Franks on Government
- If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
- Woodrow Wilson on Government
- 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.
- Thomas Jefferson on Government
- If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
- Noam Chomsky on Government
- If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
- King Abdullah II on Government
- If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.
- Peggy Noonan on Government
- 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.
- Ron Paul on Government
- If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
- Will Rogers on Government
- If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
- Milton Friedman on Government
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