Government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare, and later with Medicaid, and government… — Roy Blunt Copy Share Image
Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country. — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will… — Donald Evans Copy Share Image
Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11. — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups,… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights… — Elena Kagan Copy Share Image
We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people… Those who… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government,… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We cannot have policies that punish people for taking action. Imagine the further harm it would have caused if the federal government… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Perhaps more than anything else, failure to recognize the precariousness and fickleness of confidence - especially in cases in which large short-term… — Carmen Reinhart Copy Share Image
What I consistently say to young people - I say it in the United States, but I'll say it here in Germany… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
America's Christian conservative movement is confronted with this divide: small-government advocates who want to practice their faith independent of heavy-handed government versus… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
It is now an article of absolute faith among Republicans that 'the government' is an entity separate from 'the American people,' which… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability. — Asha Rangappa Copy Share Image
When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists. — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for limited government, but I think the government should decide what… — Tomi Lahren Copy Share Image
If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't care how sacred is freedom, but I think the time has come for governments, at least the Malaysian government, to… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Optimism leads to investment, and anything that our government can do to reinforce optimism in our economy is good. — Mike Parson Copy Share Image
If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Once you get the government involved in agriculture you'll have nothing but problems and expenses. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
