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If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result. — John Abrams

Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men. — Georges Danton

We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games. — Louise Erickson

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could. — Kay Bailey Hutchison

A neighbor is a far better and cheaper alternative to government services. — Jennifer Pahlka

If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off. — Warren Buffett

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle. — George Bancroft

Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better then no drugs at all. — Kurt Vonnegut

Individuals usually do a better job than the government. — Rob Lowe

For if the car drives in the wrong direction better fuel doesn't help. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects. — Aristotle.

How can thinking people believe that a government that cannot deliver the mail can deliver gas better than Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf, and the rest? — Milton Friedman

Whatever happens in a government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had. — Charles Frankel

You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa. — Malcolm Turnbull

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government. — Calvin Coolidge

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people. — Bobby Jindal

I believe we've ... we've worked very hard with the Iraqis to build a better place ever since the fall of Saddam's government. — John Abizaid

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. — Leonard Bernstein

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions. — Cal Thomas

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities. — Wendell Berry

If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else. — Stephen Hawking

And why do we think for a second that having the government involved will make things better — Adam Carolla

Today, in 2014, Victoria is a better, stronger, more financially secure state than when we came to government four years ago. — Denis Napthine

We've made great progress coordinating better as a government. — James Comey

I think we're on too many government watch lists. We'd better let this one go. — Grant Imahara

Beware of precise plans by government. Let government predict: it makes them feel better about themselves and justifies their existence. — Nicholas Nassim Taleb

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing. — Andrew Cuomo

Jihadis have a better bureaucracy than India. — Adrian Levy

The less government we have the better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government. — Ron Paul

I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now. — Andrew Cuomo

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better. — Harry Browne

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself. — Ronald Reagan

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that. — Richard Stallman

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes. — George Soros

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody. — Larry Elder

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health. — Bill Gates

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. — Charles Peguy

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government. — Mitt Romney

A man who has not better government of his tongue, no more command of his temper, is unfit for everything but children's play and the company of boys. — David McCullough

We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. — James Madison

Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own. — Maya Soetoro-Ng

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. — Martin Van Buren

There are always ways to make government better, always ways to make sure that the taxes of people are better spent. — George Osborne

I vote Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would. — David Letterman

The demand of our people in 1980 is not for smaller government or bigger government but for better government. — Edward Kennedy

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease. — Henry Ward Beecher

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. — Ronald Reagan

In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies. — Robert A. Heinlein

That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services. — Richard A. Epstein

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. — Rene Descartes

There ought to be a better way than government to run the world. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. — Oscar Wilde

The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better. — Thomas Sowell

Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better. — John Stossel

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient." — Gore Vidal

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government. — Penn Jillette

Quebecers have rarely in their history been better represented than they are right now-at the highest levels of the federal government. — Kim Campbell

Better to live under one tyrant a thousand miles away, than a thousand tyrants one mile away. — Daniel Bliss

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government. — Allen West

Government ... is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection. — Andrew Horning

The only thing government does better than killing is lying and covering things up. — Edward Britton

There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law. — Chris Stewart

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government
take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian. — Henry Ford

What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government. — Barack Obama

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government. — Jacob K. Javits

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. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation. — Christopher Hitchens

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago. — Will Rogers

Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better. — Jon Tester

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government — Henry David Thoreau

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better. — Bertrand Russell

If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government? — Toshiko Kishida

The less government, the better — Drew Carey

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too. — John Bolton

Right now, if you're a talented developer or designer, government is what you go into if you can't get a better job. — Jennifer Pahlka

The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it. — Hillary Clinton

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people. — Matt Blunt

Japan needs to cooperate with China economically. This is understood better by the business community than the government. — Sadako Ogata

Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly. — Ronald Reagan

It is better for the Government to help a poor man to make a living for his family than to help a rich man make more profit for his company. — Theodore Roosevelt

Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Despite everything they say, they are not popular. And the longer they stay in government, the better people will get to know their wickedness. — Ken Follett

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you. — Orson Scott Card