It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“I am not in favor of having government do anything that private citizens can do as good or better” — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
“What would you do if I told you that corporations and corporate controlled governments invest heavily in corrupted science?” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism. — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of order, the Fountain of justice, and the Protector, in all… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The thing that distinguishes America is that it is a republican form of government - anything that is not outlawed or specifically… — Bernard von NotHaus Copy Share Image
In World War II, the government went to the private sector. The government asked the private sector for help in doing things… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we… — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The world's politics are in turmoil, not to mention the Mideast, where the US has mounted attacks from Libya to Iraq to… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
It is my view that what is important is cutting government spending, however spending is financed. A so-called deficit is a disguised… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a… — John Major Copy Share Image
When you travel you realize how small you are. You need to be humble. You can't be a big, brash American. You… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time. — Kamisese Mara Copy Share Image
The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating. — John Lewis Copy Share Image
The demand of our people in 1980 is not for smaller government or bigger government but for better government. — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
City government is the level closest to the people, so our charge uniquely embodies the big and the small. — Michelle Wu Copy Share Image
Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
The Federal Government is the people and the budget is a reflection of their need. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government,… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“Government workers are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I would hate for anybody not to abide by alert warnings coming from government systems. — Kirstjen Nielsen Copy Share Image
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image