Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mitt Romney

Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further, and send it back to the private sector, that's even better.

Mitt Romney

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.

Pratibha Patil

Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.

Joseph Sobran

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

Joseph Sobran

The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom".

Paul R. Ehrlich

We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.

Leon Panetta

Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head.

L. Neil Smith

The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists - or ever existed, or ever will exist - is a kleptocracy, meaning "rule by thieves." Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce.

P. J. O'Rourke

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

P. J. O'Rourke

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.

Oscar Levant

[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.

Oliver North

I would have promised those terrorists a trip to Disneyland if it would have gotten the hostages released. I thank God they were satisfied with the missiles and we didn't have to go to that extreme.

Margaret Thatcher

It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government.

Margaret Thatcher

At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law.

Margaret Thatcher

The mission of this government is much more than the promotion of economic progress. It is to renew the spirit and solidarity of the nation.

Elizabeth I

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

Ben Stein

Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don't pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.

Bruce Sterling

Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.

Peter McWilliams

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

Phyllis Schlafly

The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.

Phyllis Schlafly

How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?

Pope Benedict XVI

Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and how far do they extend? By appeal to what authority can moral dilemmas be resolved?'

Naveen Jain

Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.

Moshe Katsav

The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don't say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed.

Moshe Dayan

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

Mike Huckabee

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

Pearl S. Buck

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one ...

Philip Emeagwali

The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.

Peter Ustinov

World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest sense,in its only sense, the patriotism of humans who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.

Peter King

The British government is a murder machine,

Terry Pratchett

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

Terry Pratchett

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

Terence McKenna

National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.