Famous Quotes & Sayings

I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want.

Jennifer Pahlka

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.

James Carville

Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

Christopher Hitchens

It would have been very alarming - morally, and in other ways too - if an attack of that nature, the 11 September attacks, had not aroused in us and in our governments and societies the spirit of self-defence. If that had not been one of the responses it seems to me there would have been very grave cause for concern.

Hillary Clinton

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

Herbert Hoover

Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.

Ezra Taft Benson

By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude. It cannot claim the power to redistribute money or property nor to force reluctant citizens to perform acts of charity against their will. Government is created by the people. No individual possesses the power to take another's wealth or to force others to do good, so no government has the the right to do such things either. The creature cannot exceed the creator.

George Washington

It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should unite in forming a system of national Government, so little liable to well founded objections.

George Washington

Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words, the confederation appears to me to be little more than a shadow without the substance . . . .

George Washington

Influence is not government.

George P. Shultz

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.

George Osborne

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.

George W. Bush

They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.

George Carlin

Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy.

Felix Rohatyn

Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

Herbert Hoover

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

Jethro Tull

The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control.

George Will

Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.

Jeff Ross

I would vote for you for President but I'm against big government.

Harry Browne

The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk".

is a big political payoff to the governor's transvestite and cross-dresser supporters and I am shocked that this small group of people should have so much influence over the governor of the state of Iowa.

John Hoffman

Stern quotes the law, and that's correct. But obviously, if the governor of the state recommends somebody, we'd give that strong consideration.

I'm hoping the governor can step in and help out.

Bertrand Russell

When the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor of that doctrine.

The announcement by the governor is two weeks late.

That?s the kind of governor I would be.

Condoleezza Rice

We really want to be ready to hit the ground running with this new government when it's ready to go.

It doesn't matter who his running mate is, he is the one running for governor and he is the one who would wield the veto pen in office.

Jesse Ventura

Government cannot be your parent.

Geronimo

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

Henry David Thoreau

There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.

Henry David Thoreau

I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A prætor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress.

Henry David Thoreau

To one who habitually endeavors to contemplate the true state of things, the political state can hardly be said to have any existence whatever. It is unreal, incredible, and insignificant to him, and for him to endeavor to extract the truth from such lean material is like making sugar from linen rags, when sugar-cane may be had.