- The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.
- Andrew Cuomo on Government
- The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.
- Sandra Day O'Connor on Government
- 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.
- Jon Meacham on Government
- 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.
- Wilhelm Reich on Government
- The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
- Andy Rooney on Government
- The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.
- Mitch Daniels on Government
- The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.
- Donald Rumsfeld on Government
- The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
- John Ruskin on Government
- The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
- David Mamet on Government
- 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.
- William J. Brennan, Jr. on Government
- The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.
- Arlen Specter on Government
- 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.
- Rush Limbaugh on Government
- 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.
- Gore Vidal on Government
- The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
- Andrew Johnson on Government
- The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.
- John Bright on Government
- The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.
- Stephen Harper on Government
- The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
- Sam Ewing on Government
- The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
- Benazir Bhutto on Government
- The government invented the Internet.
- Jon Meacham on Government
- 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.
- Mia Love on Government
- The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
- Vladimir Lenin on Government
- The government is us we are the government, you and I.
- Theodore Roosevelt on Government
- The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.
- Jeremiah Wright on Government
- The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.
- Noam Chomsky on Government
- The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.
- John C. Calhoun on Government
- The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
- Calvin Coolidge on Government
- The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
- Milton Friedman on Government
- The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.
- David Suzuki on Government
- The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.
- Bob Schieffer on Government
- The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
- Harry Browne on Government
- The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.
- David Mamet on Government
- 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.
- Woodrow Wilson on Government
- 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.
- Milton Friedman on Government
- The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
- Milton Friedman on Government
- The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.
- Elihu Root on Government
- The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.
- Steve Wynn on Government
- The happiness of society is the end of government.
- John Adams on Government
- 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.
- John Quincy Adams on Government
- 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.
- Diane Abbott on Government
- The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
- Voltaire on Government
- The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
- William Jennings Bryan on Government
- The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
- Hubert H. Humphrey on Government
- The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
- Barry Goldwater on Government
- 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.
- Alan Keyes on Government
- 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.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Government
- The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
- Thomas Paine on Government
- 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.
- Barack Obama on Government
- The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.
- Mitt Romney on Government
- The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.
- Benjamin Netanyahu on Government
- The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
- Arthur Scargill on Government
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