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I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves. — Ronald Reagan

The BBC will always be attacked by whoever is in government. It is that George Bush thing of 'If you're not with us you are against us.' — Graham Norton

Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry. — Gary Johnson

Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.' — Harry Browne

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation. — James Monroe

US government button specifications run to twenty-two pages. This fact on its own yields a sense of what it is like to design garments for the Army. — Mary Roach

The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan — Chris Matthews

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. — Ronald Reagan

In the Soviet Union every worker is a government worker, and they have a saying: As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work. — Tom Clancy

We create the government that screws you, and then you're supposed to thank us for protecting you from it. — Vin Weber

The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that — Patricia Schroeder

Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone. — Harry Browne

Edward Snowden isn't a traitor. He reported the crime of conspiracy to deny citizens of their constitutional rights. — David Chiles

I used to think my father had been assigned to us by the government. — Akhil Sharma

It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government. — Richard Dreyfuss

We have a balance of $ .32 in the bank ... Which makes us four-and-a-half trillion dollars richer than the federal government. — Jim Borgman

Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to travel. — Jeff Flake

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government. — Gene Robinson

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 responsibility of philanthropy rests with us. The wealthier we are, the more powerful we get. We cannot put the entire onus on the government. — Azim Premji

The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control. — Jethro Tull

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. — Ronald Reagan

US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government. — Ignacio Chapela

We still have a major problem in debt with America that we have to find efficiencies in government to get us back to a balanced budget. — James Lankford

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

Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality. — Al Franken

A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society. — Ian Harris

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves. — Walter E. Williams

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government. — John William Draper

Numerous US. Government documents exist which indicate that these objects are real and have been involved with observing Earth for several decades. — Steven M. Greer

For me, the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that's what separates us from other countries. — George Clooney

The US government should not be in the business of discrimination. — Christine Gregoire

What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them? — Andrew Napolitano

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification. — Malcolm Wallop

If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed. — Wayne LaPierre

I can't think of a time that the U.S. government asked us or instructed us not to report or air something. — Jim Walton

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans. — Mitt Romney

Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us? — Dwayne Andreas

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

Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night. — Max Brooks

I don't know what our government does except put us into debt and blow up other countries. — Madonna Ciccone

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us. — Joe Lhota

It's time to make our government work for all of us ... and not just the 1%. — Bernie Sanders

I think most of us in America understand that people, not the government, creates jobs. — Scott Walker

That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government. — Lyn Nofziger

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. — Ronald Reagan

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation. — Barbara Jordan

Israeli government & the neocons want US to bomb Iran. — Ron Paul

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. — Will Harvey

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. — Laurence J. Peter

Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around. — Rebecca MacKinnon

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't. — William J. Clinton

Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us? — Thomas Paine

America must listen. It must listen to the interests of others. But the US government has no interest in similarities, no matter how obvious. — Bashar Al-Assad

When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes. — Tony Campolo

Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus. — Frederic Bastiat

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Otherwise we don't run the government the government runs us — Carl Sagan

We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us? — Anna Deavere Smith

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. — Leo Tolstoy

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. — Karen Horney

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. — Thomas Jefferson

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government. — James Bovard

But from the errors of other nations let us learn wisdom, and lay hold of the present opportunity - to begin government at the right end. — Thomas Paine

Public policy can help, but there is no government that can fix these problems for us. Recall — J.D. Vance

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us. — Barack Obama

When US-led forces toppled the Taliban government in November 2001, Afghans celebrated the downfall of a reviled and discredited regime. — Anand Gopal

Next time someone says, 'Where has big government ever gotten us?' the correct answer is 'Mars.' — Andy Borowitz

If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room. — John Dickinson

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves. — Ron Paul

Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us. — Thomas Sowell

The left-wing agenda wants us to think that the reason there was a depression was because the government didn't do anything. That's not true. — Peter Schiff

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top. — Bertolt Brecht

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

Our leaders, our government is us, all of us, so if they're venal and weak it's because we are. — David Foster Wallace

If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes. — Barbara Tuchman

But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with. — Jonathan Mayhew

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? — Will Rogers

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

All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order. — Robert Kennedy

If we quickly cast aside our constitutional form of government, then the enemy will not be the terrorists, it will be us. — John Conyers

The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens. — Thomas Vilsack

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not. — Eric C. Anderson

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy. — William Graham Sumner

If I had a weak ego, and doubts about this, the first genome would not yet have been completed with US and UK government funding. — Craig Venter

All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened. — James Cook

Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future. — Winston Churchill

Was the government to prescribe us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now. - Thomas Jefferson — Thomas Jefferson

The Americans are like shadows . . . frightening until you finally touch them and realize that their image was their power all along. — Mark Henshaw

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. — Woody Allen

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers. — Thomas Jefferson

The US government had built a system that has as its goal the complete elimination of electronic privacy worldwide. — Anonymous

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

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. — P. J. O'Rourke

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution. — Al Sharpton

Government has no resources of its own. Government can only give to us what it has previously taken from us. — Rick Scott

I reiterate that the rigor and credibility brought to the world by Monti's government are for us a point of no return. — Pier Luigi Bersani

Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government. — Mahatma Gandhi

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people. — Maynard James Keenan