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The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The principal objective of American government at every level should be to
see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that. — Dennis Prager

Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not. — Michael Lind

The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country. — Michael Parenti

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think ... Let us dare to read, think, speak, write. — David McCullough

If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail. — Patrick Henry

It would be quite wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for the activities of American Communists. — J. Stalin

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying. — George Michael

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

One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government. — Calvin Coolidge

The U.N. is an American-based bastion of foreign spies. Russia has more spies in the U.S. than there are members of the F.B.I. — Meldrim Thomson Jr.

All peoples are fed up with the American government. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

A quote from the American Thomas Jefferson. A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. — Steve Berry

American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees. — James Bovard

But when it did, when the first American fell to his knees, the government was ill prepared for the fallout and the sickness spread like wildfire. — Madeline Sheehan

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place. — Noam Chomsky

I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system. — Judd Gregg

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America. — Cindy Sheehan

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

And the American people may be sentimental, but their government is not. The US State Department won't trade anything major for one man's life. — Andy Weir

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

The greatest source of America's generosity is not our government; it's the good heart of the American people. — George W. Bush

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world. — Ginger Baker

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government. — Rick Perry

The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis. — Thomas Jefferson

I think the American public has gone from really almost white-hot anger in 2010 to an anxiety knowing their government needs to work. — Steny Hoyer

It's okay to take the food out of the mouths of the citizens from a government that's plotting an attack directly on American soil. — Mark Kirk

[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God — Ronald Reagan

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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

Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"? — Stefan Molyneux

The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the bosses. — Austin O'Malley

I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government. — Ferdinand Marcos

I am ashamed and deeply distressed that American government should have become the chief cause of disillusionment with American principles. — Wendell Berry

It's a good thing the American people aren't getting all the government they're paying for. — Will Rogers

As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't. — Mark Falcoff

The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government. — Sarah Vowell

The policy of the American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits. — Thomas Jefferson

Either we start cutting the government and shrinking the size of government, or else we're going to face the political wrath of the American people. — Marlin Stutzman

The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government's policies, that are so hated. — Arundhati Roy

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability. — Stephen Kinzer

If we become an accomplice to criminal activities by the American government, then we are liable too. — Clive Stafford Smith

This is for one simple reason: each Islamic mosque is dedicated to the overthrow of the American government. — Bryan Fischer

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. — Henry David Thoreau

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth. — Jimmy Carter

If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way. — Tony La Russa

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry. — Rand Paul

The American government must finally learn lessons from the past. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Many years ago, there used to be something called 'conflict of interest.' No longer, I'm afraid. Today, we all bathe in the same river. — Gore Vidal

I told Donald Trump, 'This isn't a campaign, this is a movement.' Look at what's happening. The American people are not happy with their government. — Jeff Sessions

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone. — Will Rogers

The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together. — Bill Frist

When we're talking about the "American response" to any disaster, it's not just a government response, an official response, it's a popular response. — Richard Norton Smith

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible. — Marco Rubio

The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language. — Frank Church

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government. — Cynthia McKinney

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military. — William O. Douglas

It's every American's duty to support his government but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed. — Thomas C. Mann

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business. — John Sununu

I don't believe in the Constitution because I'm American, I'm American because I believe in the Constitution. — J.S.B. Morse

The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. — J. Edgar Hoover

The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned. — Henry A. Kissinger

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government. — Taylor Branch

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden

We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government. — Ronald Reagan

The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

President Obama trusts in the wisdom of government. I put my trust in the ingenuity and creativity and commitment to hard work of the American people. — Mitt Romney

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people. — James Bovard

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way. — Omar N. Bradley

To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong. — Isaac Asimov

You know what I like about the American form of government? They've worked things out so that you're never far from a 7-Eleven. — George Carlin

It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South. — William H. Seward

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 the American worker needs is more of what WalMart offers and less of what the government offers. — Llewellyn Rockwell

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

The American dream is under attack because our government has been hijacked by the Liberals in Washington DC. — Herman Cain

The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world. — Bernardine Dohrn

The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children. — Ruth Reichl

We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices ... Government has to make those choices for people. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American. — Antonin Scalia

The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals. — Lenny Bruce

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government. — Shirin Ebadi

Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English. — Alan Siegel

The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits. — Kevin D. Williamson

With each passing day, I become more and more convinced that the greatest threat to American freedom is the United States government. — Michel Templet

The American government will be whatever we all make of it. — Megan Smith

Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people. — Archibald Cox

No. But then the American Government
whatever branch
has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Conservative Republicans are back. We're in the fight for fiscal discipline and limited government, and we are on the side of the American people. — Mike Pence

Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We, the American people, we are the solution. — William J. Clinton

When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry. — Ron Wyden

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

The American government is making nuclear weapons like there's no tomorrow. — Emo Philips

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent. — Marco Rubio

In South America, the government of Peru goes door to door pressuring women to be sterilized and they are funded by American tax dollars to do this — Mark Earley