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When government grows, it breaks the family. — Kevin McCarthy

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it. — Huey Long

I want to get away from "It's either government or the market." That's a false dichotomy. — Douglas Massey

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government. — Isabel Paterson

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government. — Bob Woodward

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government. — Alan Green

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government. — Theodore Bikel

For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself. — Charles Kennedy

I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American. — Michael Newdow

People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem. — Tony Abbott

Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves. — Bertrand De Jouvenel

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible. — Charley Reese

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one ... — Pearl S. Buck

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy. — Damian Lewis

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best. — Alexander Pope

They can't strike against smugglers! We're not the government. We are a criminal private-enterprise operation! — Bruce Sterling

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

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

The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter. — Emma Goldman

I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care. — Ted Cruz

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State. — Sophocles

The theory of government changes with general progress. — Ulysses S. Grant

I want to convey a message to the Sri Lankan government that they should seriously consider sending Sri Lankan Cricket Team to Pakistan. — Sanath Jayasuriya

The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation. — Kim Dotcom

One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic. — Lee Kuan Yew

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

What ... can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way. — Murray Rothbard

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us. — Ronald Reagan

Government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind. — Joseph Conrad

Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen. — Frank Herbert

Haven't you noticed that every time the government f-ks up McDonald's has a new sandwich? — Bill Burr

The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today. — Ethan Nadelmann

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government. — James Q. Wilson

A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species. — James Madison

The fundamental challenge is that people like me simply do not trust the federal government any longer. — Chris Stewart

Luke's eyes were on a government position in DC, while all Natalie wanted was help make the world a sweeter place. — Ophelia London

The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends. — Walter E. Williams

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

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. — Groucho Marx

Anything that the private sector can do, the government can do it worse. — Dixie Lee Ray

What the (totalitarian) government cares about is making the quest for information just enough of the nuisance that people generally won't bother. — James M. Fallows

It's easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where the government might legitimately give out false information, — Ted Olson

Big government makes small citizens. — Mark Steyn

My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again. — Stephen Colbert

Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through. — Luis Fortuno

I believe government should be loyal to parents, teachers and children. — J. C. Watts

monarchy in every instance is the Popery of government. — Thomas Paine

The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all. — Nelson Mandela

We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security. — Stephen Harper

One third of the land in the United States is owned by the government. — Na

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog. — Charley Reese

Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East. — Bill Gates

The government is largely influenced by people who advocate corporate welfare and advocate these policies that create this two-tiered society. — Charles Koch

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic. — H.L. Mencken

The corporate government is heavily influenced by the utility company cartel. — Steven Magee

The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget. — Ludwig Von Mises

I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads. — Sandra Cisneros

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them. — Thaddeus Stevens

Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism. — Catharine MacKinnon

War is when your government tells you who the enemy is. A revolution is when you figure it out yourself. — Anonymous

The only way to make a difference is to acquire power. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school. — Stockwell Day

Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong — Richard Crossman

The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities. — Barton Gellman

A people who are intent on getting something-for-nothing from government cannot cavil over the infringement of their rights by that government; — Anonymous

No resource will flourish if managed by government. — James Cook

The United States influences government and life everywhere else. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The way to a landowner's heart was to tax gently. — Peter Heather

The bank balance was Noel Constant's share in the estate of his anarchist father. The estate had consisted principally of Government bonds. — Kurt Vonnegut

Protect and Survive — UK Government

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

There's no room for human rights in a government waiting room. — Stephen Clarke

The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government. — Lalu Prasad Yadav

Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again. — Grover Cleveland

Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything. — Mark Thornton

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations. — Suzy Kassem

There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be. — Emma Goldman

You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President. — Chuck Schumer

When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France. — Nicolas Chamfort

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government. — Rick Perry

Without trusting government you can't do a lot of things. — John McCain

The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war. — Albert Camus

Government that breaks its own laws can also easily break you. — V.S. Naipaul

Y'know, watching government regulators trying to keep up with the world is my favorite sport. — Neal Stephenson

Think of the press as a great keyboard
on which the government can play. — Joseph Goebbels

Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you. — Bill Whittle

The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification. — Laurence Tribe

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it. — Thomas Jefferson

I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country." — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture. — Darin Strauss

How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department! — Ludwig Von Mises

As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion. — Stewart Dalzell

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther. — Michele Bachmann

I need to work outside government, on my own. — Marian Wright Edelman

I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government. — Sonia Sotomayor

The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning. — Linda Ronstadt

Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation. — Giacomo Matteotti

Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become ... a far greater aggressor. — John Hospers

The information that follows is taken primarily ... from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees. — G. Edward Griffin