I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
I've led a life working at every level of government, from Congress to local government. — Kathy Hochul Copy Share Image
Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“When picking a leader, choose a peacemaker. One who unites, not divides. A cultured leader who supports the arts and true freedom… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy -… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We send a lot of money - I don't know, I think it's in billions - of money to the Saudi government.… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Most of the energy in North America is just consuming - Wal-Mart, shopping centres, government offices - or personal consumption: houses, cars,… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When you're encouraging - the government is encouraging guns to be sold illegally to people that shouldn't have them, the laws aren't… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not… — Allan Sloan Copy Share Image
The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
One way to ease liquidity for banks is that the government can buy all highly rated securities held by the banks. Every… — Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Copy Share Image
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
If we have more people on the receiving end of government - more people as the middle class becomes sucked in more… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice. — Mencius Copy Share Image
Many people are interested in their behavior among people; I am interested in my behavior alone. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'. — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Trust is a two way street. If your government does not trust you, how can you trust your government? — Bruce Montague Copy Share Image
The problem in Pankisi is an extension of broader problems throughout Georgia. The whole system is based on shady deals. The entire… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Government has a limited amount of resources and a limited amount of ability to stop things that are market driven. — Francis X. Suarez Copy Share Image
Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor… — William Henry Harrison Copy Share Image
The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're fighting for community energy initiatives, warmer homes and crucial flood defences - and fiercely opposing the Government's assault on renewables. — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We need to think about what Silicon Valley can contribute to the country - not just that somehow government bureaucrats should listen… — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more. — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
