- 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.
- Stephen Harper on Government
- The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.
- Gary Bauer on Government
- The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
- Martin Van Buren on Government
- The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.
- Grover Cleveland on Government
- The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.
- Rick Perry on Government
- The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.
- James Wolcott on Government
- The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
- George Washington on Government
- 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.
- J. C. Watts on Government
- The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
- Cullen Hightower on Government
- The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.
- Mitch McConnell on Government
- The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
- John Stuart Mill on Government
- 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.
- H. L. Mencken on Government
- The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
- Milton Friedman on Government
- 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
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