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"Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one."
"People create jobs, not the government."
"We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government."
"I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government, not because you kick them off of benefits like unemployment but they've been able to control their own destiny because private sector employers have created more jobs."
"It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS."
"More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way."
"As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job."
"We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers."
"As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening."
"I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better."
"The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds."
"I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses."
"In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government."
"One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around."
"What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power."
"I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life."
"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."
"You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous."
"Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be."
"Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy."
"I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire."
"There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government."
"Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better."
"I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people."
"So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job."
"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."
"We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't."
"I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause."
"Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden."
"I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S."
"I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day."
"The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires."
"We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels."
"Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people."
"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."
"If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you."
"It is unclear exactly how many law enforcement agencies are currently using this capability, but it is reasonable to say that while resource limitations used to discourage the government from tracking you without a good reason, these constraints have largely disappeared."
"Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates."
"Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do."
"Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government."
"We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back."
"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."
"All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer."
"Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending."
"We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop."
"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."
"Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make."
"We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs."
"In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published."
"You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there."
"Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports."
"When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important."
"Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?"
"My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots."
"Americans accept that gangsters are running the 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."
"I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run."
"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."
"There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets."
"Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system."
"We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government."
"I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services."
"The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded."
"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."
"I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying."
"We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together."
"As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government."
"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it."
"If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets."
"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."
"Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it."
"You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party."
"I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional, limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country."
"Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed."
"Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization."
"In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility."
"The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress."
"There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic."
"As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital."
"For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms."
"Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government."
"No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems."
"I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses."
"I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done."
"Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done."
"It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free."
"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."
"Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it."
"What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance."
"We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny."
"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."
"My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America I just don't like some of the things the government is doing."
"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."
"And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader."
"So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat, ' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK."
"I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government."
"It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing."
"Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it."
"If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them."
"I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing."
"I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now."
"I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me."
"The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development."
"The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act."
"My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for."
"If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government."
"Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls."
"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."
"All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way."
"One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster."
"This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people."
"And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties."
"The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect."
"To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall."
"As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything."
"We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed."
"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."
"There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums."
"I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government."
"For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them."
"We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought."
"Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes."
"You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices."
"It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority."
"Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice."
"We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum."
"We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government."
"We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry."
"You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government."
"In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents."
"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."
"There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons."
"The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up."
"When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'"
"Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most. That is what being in the United Kingdom is all about."
"Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule."
"Truth is the glue that holds government together."
"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men."
"Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible."
"The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets."
"Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy."
"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."
"It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter."
"The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama."
"I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."
"I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that's what the Tea Party was all about. It's getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it's also effective and efficient. I think that that's what we'll be able to do."
"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."
"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."
"When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place."
"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."
"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
"We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive."
"But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips."
"We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people."
"I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services, ' it's actually a 'false choice.'"
"If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well."
"Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile."
"You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time."
"While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor."
"As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything."
"I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it."
"We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are."
"I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government."
"I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed."
"A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top."
"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear."
"Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof."
"Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction."
"Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing."
"And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have before."
"We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States."
"We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are."
"Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk."
"A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government."
"The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it."
"Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading."
"I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master."
"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."
"A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity."
"As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable."
"You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the 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."
"We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way."
"I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare and remnants of the pro-business moderates."
"For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government."
"Aggression is simply another name for government."
"My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all."
"I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current writing teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out."
"Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion."
"Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs."
"I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in."
"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."
"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."
"Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo."
"In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures."
"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."
"If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals."
"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."
"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."
"It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs."
"Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone."
"Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy."
"People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government."
"This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you."
"Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him one doubted Him one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?"
"My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost."
"I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen."
"National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties."
"The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself."
"If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government."
"When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war."
"People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed."
"Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?"
"I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100, 000 elevator."
"All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour."
"Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad."
"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."
"Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest."
"I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective."
"I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world."
"We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security."
"What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it."
"We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians."
"We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters."
"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."
"It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern."
"There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal."
"If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people."
"In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations."
"I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion."
"First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative 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."
"Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government."
"Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government."
"Let's be honest about this the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life."
"Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment."
"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?"
"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."
"The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time."
"The government invented the Internet."
"What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford."
"An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?"
"All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same."
"Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own we always have. It is not the government's responsibility."
"This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire."
"The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie."
"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."
"People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing."
"I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that."
"Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government."
"We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation."
"You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen."
"Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half."
"I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of 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."
"It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution."
"Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme."
"For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."
"Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract."
"Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words 'abortion' or 'tax hikes' pass their lips."
"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."
"I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons."
"Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party."
"At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity."
"It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society."
"I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government."
"I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique."
"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."
"The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice."
"A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward."
"If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end."
"The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government."
"I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up."
"In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions."
"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."
"Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government."
"Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?"
"Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting."
"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."
"Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them."
"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people."
"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong."
"What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it."
"Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant."
"This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave."
"Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!"
"I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions."
"Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule."
"I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal."
"Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens."
"I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world."
"A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government."
"Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives."
"Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program."
"After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding."
"From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence."
"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?"
"President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?"
"But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government."
"Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government."
"I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule."
"If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France."
"It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most."
"Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may."
"It's the federal government's job to secure the border."
"The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy."
"We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online."
"But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from."
"Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account."
"Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion."
"The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House."
"I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions."
"One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk."
"Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror."
"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."
"In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge."
"I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament."
"We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government."
"Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry."
"Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?"
"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."
"A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government."
"I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in 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."
"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."
"Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government."
"The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."
"I've always been about less government."
"The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians."
"I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government."
"The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied."
"We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?"
"By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate."
"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."
"Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate."
"I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution."
"The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people."
"When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals."
"Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government."
"Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are."
"Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner."
"Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances."
"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."
"President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people."
"I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights."
"Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people."
"New York State is upside down and backwards high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush."
"People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix."
"We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care."
"It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government."
"Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you."
"Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives."
"President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity."
"When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home."
"Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government."
"This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area."
"In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down."
"You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean."
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
"I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated."
"It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right."
"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."
"Corporations often partner with government after natural disasters, as many companies did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As a rule, however, long-term civic/corporate partnerships are still rare .But this need not remain the status quo, as many opportunities are available for such partnerships."
"A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable."
"To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution."
"The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least."
"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."
"The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens."
"It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights."
"The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism."
"Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights."
"I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor."
"I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own 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."
"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."
"There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result."
"All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities."
"Every government must consider the security of the country. That is just part of the responsibilities of any government. But true security can only come out of unity within a country where there are so many ethnic nationalities."
"Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed."
"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."
"Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad."
"America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people."
"Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now."
"Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!"
"Good government is the outcome of private virtue."
"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."
"Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy."
"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."
"There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair."
"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."
"'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that."
"The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army."
"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government."
"And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role."
"But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives."
"While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile."
"I pinch myself because of the understanding that I've been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get - to serve their government and their people at this level."
"Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs."
"Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them."
"Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent."
"And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time."
"We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I don't - that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. It's insane and it's unsustainable."
"And here's the fact: the fact is it doesn't solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, 'Look, every penny you make next year the government's going to take it from you, ' it still doesn't solve the debt."
"Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country."
"In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed."
"And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done."
"Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence."
"In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized."
"Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '£10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia."
"People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free."
"Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government."
"The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country."
"It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending."
"We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility."
"I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money."
"As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth."
"Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government."
"World War II was the last government program that really worked."
"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
"It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth."
"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."
"Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it."
"You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys."
"The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same."
"There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government."
"Government is dysfunctional."
"The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals."
"When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry."
"Government is essentially immoral."
"As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed."
"Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good."
"But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us."
"But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion."
"The weather is like the government, always in the wrong."
"The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions."
"That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support."
"It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States."
"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."
"I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back."
"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
"The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation."
"If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it."
"My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims."
"The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity."
"To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his."
"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government, ' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country."
"I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government."
"I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government, so I guess I would put the onus on them to answer why they did all these purges of God."
"In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government."
"President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44, 000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1, national defense is the first priority of the federal government."
"Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax government transfer payments have become less progressive."
"We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed."
"We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them."
"So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!"
"In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending, ' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes."
"Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works."
"In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on."
"I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major."
"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
"Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches."
"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."
"Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent."
"The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back."
"We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility."
"In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me."
"Democracy is when the people keep a government in check."
"You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government."
"Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos."
"Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work."
"The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people."
"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."
"Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government."
"But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people."
"You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility."
"It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose."
"The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power."
"I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come."
"I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time."
"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."
"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."
"Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government."
"This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs."
"We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government."
"Government stimulates the democrat party."
"I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed."
"Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government."
"You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government."
"There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience."
"Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else."
"Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right."
"Every country has the government it deserves."
"Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'"
"That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective."
"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."
"I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend."
"Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government."
"As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility."
"People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened."
"The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people."
"We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent."
"We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was."
"Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism."
"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."
"I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it."
"Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub."
"Everything government touches turns to crap."
"Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force."
"A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves."
"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."
"Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?"
"So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations."
"Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government."
"Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it."
"We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government."
"It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state."
"The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people."
"Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits."
"Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too."
"The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted."
"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses."
"No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges."
"And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms."
"Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true."
"A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person."
"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
"Though the people support the government the government should not support the people."
"A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years."
"When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned."
"We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again."
"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."
"What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."
"When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished."
"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
"I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated."
"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."
"As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary."
"I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government."
"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
"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."
"To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates."
"I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans."
"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."
"We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds."
"The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
"Government has no other end, but the preservation of property."
"Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated."
"We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out."
"We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government."
"When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale."
"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."
"I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property."
"One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt."
"It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract."
"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."
"When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility."
"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."
"We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans."
"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!"
"By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
"Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety."
"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."
"This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances."
"What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention."
"Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government."
"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."
"We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us."
"Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient."
"Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?"
"Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us."
"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it."
"I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you."
"That fatal drollery called a representative government."
"Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote."
"If government were a product, selling it would be illegal."
"I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money."
"No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition."
"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits."
"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."
"Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes."
"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."
"We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another."
"The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries."
"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both."
"The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people."
"We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole."
"As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending."
"Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy."
"For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for."
"And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together."
"I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?"
"Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people."
"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."
"You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one."
"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble 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."
"The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that."
"One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries."
"A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible."
"If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government."
"As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics."
"In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government."
"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist."
"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."
"The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government."
"We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government."
"Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government."
"Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination."
"There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people."
"Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty."
"A government of laws, and not of men."
"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor."
"Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government."
"Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States."
"To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches."
"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."
"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
"Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to."
"In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy."
"I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care."
"No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal."
"Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations."
"On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it."
"Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work."
"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."
"The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy."
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
"It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans."
"By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter."
"You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector."
"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."
"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."
"Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him."
"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint."
"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
"Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
"Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined."
"All government, of course, is against liberty."
"The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way."
"Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily."
"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."
"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."
"And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job."
"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."
"There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained."
"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."
"Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government."
"The universe never did make sense I suspect it was built on government contract."
"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."
"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
"The happiness of society is the end of 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."
"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
"I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card."
"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads."
"I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other."
"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."
"It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you."
"I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work."
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
"Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the 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."
"Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it."
"There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people."
"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."
"Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today."
"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."
"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
"It's not tyranny we desire it's a just, limited, federal government."
"The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending."
"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men."
"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
"Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government."
"The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government."
"The government is us we are the government, you and I."
"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power."
"It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it."
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."
"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more."
"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives."
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
"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."
"Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own 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."
"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."
"When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans."
"The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of 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."
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."
"Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it."
"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."
"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."
"Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse."
"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."
"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."
"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."
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."
"Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing."
"One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it."
"Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets."
"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."
"The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery."
"The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
"No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will."
"That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part."
"So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done."
"An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger."
"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."
"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man."
"Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims."
"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."
"Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government."
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
"History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is."
"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."
"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
"When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties."
"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country."
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
"Government does not solve problems it subsidizes them."
"The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them."
"Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it."
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."
"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."
"The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much."
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."
"A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference."
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."
"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
"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."
"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"
"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
"Man is not free unless government is limited."
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much 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."
"But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with."
"As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States."
"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers."
"But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government."
"The essence of good government is trust."
"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."
"There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic."
"The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them."
"Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits."
"Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."
"Americans no longer look to government for economic security rather, they look to their portfolios."
"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."
"The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion."
"To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places."
"I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could."
"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."
"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern."
"Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it."
"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."
"A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others."
"Democracy is an abuse of statistics."
"Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home."
"I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it."
"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be."
"Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down."
"Let the people think they govern and they will be governed."
"It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government."
"You don't pay taxes - they take taxes."
"The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power."
"It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting."
"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."
"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
"Governments never learn. Only people learn."
"Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law unto himself it invites anarchy."
"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
"People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income."
"The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government."
"Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them."
"To rule is easy, to govern difficult."
"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."
"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."
"What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended."
"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."
"Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln."
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
"This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."
"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."
"So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system."
"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes."
"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."
"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."
"Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?"
"If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?"
"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed."
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
"Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."