When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can't stop with just one. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
England can never be ruined except by a Parliament. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley Copy Share Image
Really, the one thing that actually works - you know, state-run communism may not be your cup of tea, but [China's] government… — Jeffrey R. Immelt Copy Share Image
Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well:… — Darrell Issa Copy Share Image
The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Closed Circuit' came out of a general anxiety about surveillance. Government surveillance and private surveillance. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis.… — Jim Talent Copy Share Image
Our success as a nation is not measured by how many years we have governed or how many wars we have won.… — Matthew Morgan Copy Share Image
In the 1970s the government propped up managers who couldn't run their industries properly. Nowadays they prop up our lousy managers who… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Experience tells us that we do not need more overspending or higher taxes to grow jobs. We do not need more regulations… — Tim Walberg Copy Share Image
You think Bill Gates would have dropped out of Harvard and toiled away creating Microsoft if he thought the government was going… — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
As I said, this [repercussions] may take different forms : direct and indirect. Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments. Indirect… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I haven't studied it deeply, but the American banks started the crisis with far more capital and what I would call "good… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
The climate crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. From not only the warming of the earth with higher global… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
My beliefs really haven't changed since I was in government. If anything, it gave me appreciation for how challenging it is for… — Rod Beckstrom Copy Share Image
“The most insidious of our country, the greediest and highest rung of our socioeconomic ladder, line their pockets with misappropriated funds as… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
Communism is not a political party nor a political plan under the Constitution; it is a system of government that is the… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Among the elementary measures the American government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges, and universities… — William Z. Foster Copy Share Image
There was a time that I questioned the government's role in abortion. — Ken Cuccinelli Copy Share Image
The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth. — George Osborne Copy Share Image
People everywhere face the threat of control by government and technology. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government. — James K. Polk Copy Share Image