Paternalism is the method of government activism most amenable to an impoverished public sector. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink. — Frank Dobson Copy Share Image
I am releasing a comprehensive ethics plan because our people should be able to trust that their government is working for them. — Andy Beshear Copy Share Image
The argument can be made: Maybe you want to trust the government, but you shouldn't because you don't know where things are… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around. — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic… — Jerrold Nadler Copy Share Image
How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens? — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and of a State. The former… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
There is a time for weighing evidence and a time for acting. And if there's one thing I've learned throughout my work… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It is critical that Democratic candidates, whether they are in New Jersey, or Virginia, or anywhere, emphasize the fact that we can… — Mark Warner Copy Share Image
The many - and by the way, white, black, Asian, it covers everybody. Evangelicals, conservatives, Tea Partyers. Everybody has been hurt by… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I've been working hard on a new song, it's titled "Frozen Piggy Pudding". It's about how the government is full of pigs… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
I think it's interesting because the 1990s ended with the government pretty much giving up. There was a recognition that encryption was… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the greater consciousness among Whites about Black equality has not carried over to the new victims of racism - Muslims and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work. Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
“The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Hold on to your wallets folks because with the passage of this trillion-dollar baby, the Democrats will be poised to spend as… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers. — Carl Paladino Copy Share Image
The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people. — George Mason Copy Share Image
The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Fracking is an industrial process, but it can be done safely. It's government's job to make sure it can be done safely. — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
As entrepreneurs, we sometimes do not understand the complexities of running a government. — Bhavish Aggarwal Copy Share Image
To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power… — David Nasaw Copy Share Image
There's an old saying that the government is your partner from birth, but they don't get to come to all the meetings. — John C. Malone Copy Share Image
The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States. — Norm Dicks Copy Share Image
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
“a national government is bad enough, but this administration is the largest collection of scoundrels and morons in recent memory.” — Jim Dodge Copy Share Image
Republicans want less taxes so we can create jobs; however, we cannot win by solely focusing on an economic message of lower… — Mercedes Schlapp Copy Share Image
The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird! — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
