Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janeane Garofalo

Sometimes the critics review me harshly for not being critical of government but it's not me who has said I was political.

Janeane Garofalo

The media is supposed to be custodians of the facts and watchdogs of government. They have, for the most part, neglected to be either of those things.

Ernie Fletcher

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

Ernie Fletcher

A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.

Erik Paulsen

Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.

Gary Bauer

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.

Gary Bauer

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.

Garet Garrett

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

Garet Garrett

If people cannot limit government they will not for long be free.

Garet Garrett

No government can provide social security. It is not in the nature of government to be able to provide anything. Government itself is not self-supporting. It lives by taxation. Therefore, since it cannot provide for itself but by taking toll of what the people produce, how can it provide social security for the people?

Garet Garrett

Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity. Either one must forbid the other or one will destroy the other. That we know. Yet never has the choice been put to a vote of the people.

Garet Garrett

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

Garet Garrett

Government is the natural enemy of freedom.

Garet Garrett

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.

Fritz Sauckel

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

George C. Marshall

Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.

Christopher Gadsden

I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.

Christine Pelosi

Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms.

Christine Quinn

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

Christine O'Donnell

America is now a socialist economy. The definition of a socialist economy is when 50% or more of your economy is dependent on the federal government.

Christina Romer

Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.

Chris Rock

The government doesn't want you to use YOUR drugs, they want you to use THEIR drugs.

Gertrude Stein

... governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting ...

Hal Rothman

From its founding, [Nevada] has always struggled to belong. It has had a series of masters--the mining industry, the railroads, the federal government, and now gaming and tourism--that have driven the state's economy and compelled its direction.

Hal Holbrook

Lobbyists in Washington are making six figure salaries selling our government out to the corporate interests and we just sit and smile as if nothing is happening while the poor folks are getting poorer and their pharmaceutical bills rise.

Gordon Cooper

I know other astronauts share my feelings.... And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs.

Gordon Brown

My first rule - the golden rule - ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and that current spending will be met from taxation.

Gordon Brown

Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care

Geronimo

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

Gerry Adams

There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if you consent to an internal six county settlement and if you are willing to negotiate the state of Irish society with a foreign government.

Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries.

Herman Kahn

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.

Herman Cain

A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires.