The government can become so elitist and concentrate on elitist interests. To help the government, you must constantly hold its attention. — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
It's not government that makes business successful. It's not government investments that makes businesses grow and hire people. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
71 percent of the American people think that the federal government should take no more than 20 percent of anybody's paycheck no… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The four pillars of government . . . (which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure). — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Trillions of dollars are being spent in the name of 'saving' the economy: bailouts, 'stimulus,' omnibus spending bills, budgets, government takeovers of… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is… — Veerappa Moily Copy Share Image
The federal government has gone too far on many nonessential regulations that are harming small businesses. Employers are rightly concerned about the… — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
It's possible a Palestinian state will be installed over the heads of the Palestinians. It could be part of an agreement between… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The governments alone are responsible for the spread of the superstitious awe with which the common man looks upon every bit of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I think, you know, what we've had for many years is a federal government that's not particularly concerned with the structure of… — Edward Alden Copy Share Image
The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This government does not believe that public safety is enhanced by carrying weapons. In fact, it has been a long-standing Canadian government… — Anne McLellan Copy Share Image
The government can now delve into personal and private records of individuals even if they cannot be directly connected to a terrorist… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The government sent the Indians to Oklahoma. They had a treaty that said, 'You shall have this land as long as grass… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
It is sometimes suggested that the [Nazi economic] recovery was a product of a specific fascist economic strategy, which distinguished it from… — Richard Overy Copy Share Image
In Mexico, a poor country, higher education is of quite good quality -- and is free. Ten years ago the government tried… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property. — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
One consequence of Russia's klepto-capitalist model is the growing appeal of government jobs, with their lucrative opportunities for payoffs. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
If we're free to do what we want, why does government always have a plan for us? — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Fine Gael needs to be Fine Gael and needs to stand its ground. It should not sacrifice its politics for position in… — Leo Varadkar Copy Share Image
Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago. — Roscoe Pound Copy Share Image
The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head. — Gary DeMar Copy Share Image
Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
...the West has its share of liars and poseurs, the ablest of whom congregate in government. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Our offices are filled with people working their lives out to enrich their boss, government or company.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image