“We believe that only government has the capacity--not to mention the political and moral responsibility--to promote the general welfare. Father Kramer as… — Janet Poppendieck Copy Share Image
Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller,… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Far too many government spending programs have gone years, even decades, without being reauthorized, leaving the American people less able to effectively… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
The State, it cannot be too often repeated, does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody. The… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver. — Edward James Olmos Copy Share Image
Taxing the rich to fund the poorly managed government programs is simply a self-destructive decision: It does nothing more than move money… — T. J. Rodgers Copy Share Image
My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
So you've got these regular, middle-class voters who don't hate the government as much as the Kochs do. They're Republicans, but they… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Government has laid its hand on health, housing, farming, industry, commerce, education, and to an ever-increasing degree interferes with the people's right… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In the nature of things, those who have no property and see their neighbors possess much more than they think them to… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying.… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Phil Gramm had a stump speech about how his mother's devotion kept him from being an academic failure in life. She got… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
One more time? We've done this. We've done this at least four times where there's a new government program to help homeowners… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
The Lean Startup isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business, it's about what we can learn from those… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between… — Florence King Copy Share Image
You know, Floridians, we've paid into Social Security. Like a lot of other government programs, we sent money to D.C. We expect… — Rick Scott Copy Share Image
We have revenue coming in. We can pay our interest payments. And then we can prioritize what government programs that have been… — Todd Rokita Copy Share Image
