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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

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

There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government. — William J. Clinton

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

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

It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel. — Ted Turner

The Canada we know and love will not survive another four years of Stephen Harper and his Conservative government. — Mel Hurtig

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

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

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

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all. — James Mill

There is, in fact, a strong case to be made that a prime concern of government is the security of state power from the population. As — Noam Chomsky

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

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters. — Ambrose Bierce

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

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

When has the government ever told anyone the truth? — Philip K. Dick

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

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 remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled. — Sue Kelly

Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer. — H.L. Mencken

In no country and under no circumstances is it possible to launch resistance unless the government approves of this. — Mohammed Mahdi Akef

The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President. — James Buchanan

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter

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

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government. — Sun Myung Moon

Parties that win elections should form the government, not parties that lose elections. — Nicola Sturgeon

President Herbert Hoover returned his salary to the government. His idea caught on, and now we're all doing it. — Sam Ewing

Forget the state concerns
we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape. — Michael Tanner

New York Times founder Henry Raymond started his newspaper, "with the goal of reforming government, not belittling it. — Harold Holzer

It is the government's fundamental duty to ensure the security of every individual citizen. — Charles Kennedy

As I've said many times before, in the real world, the A students often go to work for the C students--and the B students work for the government. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government. — James K. Polk

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. — Jon Meacham

It is not that the people want a BJP government or Modi as PM. The Nation wants to teach a lesson to those who have ruined the nation. — Narendra Modi

A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life. — Charles W. Colson

Would it not be simpler If the Government Dissolved the people And elected another? — Bertolt Brecht

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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