Quotes about government
government evil nazism
At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent. Joseph Sobran
government judicial-review favors
Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly restrained Congress at all. Instead it has progressively stripped the states of their traditional powers, while allowing federal power to grow unchecked.
government liberty libertarian
The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.
government agents politics
Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.
government brain today
...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain). Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction of the U.S. population today - subtle logicians like you - can grasp such nuances. Too bad. The Constitution wasn't meant to be a brain-twister.
government campaigns voters
Too many voters are already bought -- not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself.
government abortion kitchen
Legalizing abortion to get government out of the bedroom is like legalizing cannibalism to get government out of the kitchen.
government way anarchy
There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power...
government liberty libertarian
The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent.
government names ideas
People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to measure the chilling effect on innovation that results from the threats of taxation, regulation and prosecution against anything that succeeds. We'll never know how many ideas our government has aborted in the name protecting us.
government liberty citizens
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".
government america serious
I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.
government liberty politics
If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.
government serious consideration
The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously. Joseph Brodsky
government attention pay
We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing. Paul R. Ehrlich
government giving together
We've all got to get together and demand something better out of our government and out of each other. We've got a system that's making us working harder, and isn't giving us satisfaction. We've got to sit down and decide what the hell we really want to be as human beings.
government people united-states
This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen. Paul Robeson
government important needs
Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further. Patrick McHenry
government race different
Why would we have different races if God meant us to be alike and associate with each other? Lester Maddox
government people fabric
The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution. Leopoldo Lopez
government information able
Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head. Leon Panetta
government agency people
Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.
government hierarchy incompetence
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence. Laurence J. Peter
government offering iraq
The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges. Larry Sabato
government aggravation people
I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation. Lajos Kossuth
government san-francisco water
I have long argued that we need to reopen Alcatraz to house government criminals, and let tourists on excursion boats in San Francisco Bay pay to chum the water with meat with an expired sell-by date that would otherwise have to be discarded. L. Neil Smith
government stealing
Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.
government privilege existence
I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.
government disease libertarian
Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.
government class important
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.
government want doe
If we're free to do what we want, why does government always have a plan for us? P. J. O'Rourke
government macroeconomics microeconomics
Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of.
government way size
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.