Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal…

In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has…

— Barack Obama

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.

— George McGovern

“A corporate controlled government is the enemy of the common people.”

— Steven Magee

“They view the government as their enemy, profit as their only friend – probably do not even see themselves as the traitors they are.”

— Andrew Wareham

Our own government has become our enemy.

— Chuck Baldwin

Government is the enemy until you need a friend.

— William Cohen

I think about this every day. I wonder, 'Is today the day where everybody stops lying to themselves and realises that the government is…

— Skepta

“At the deepest level, the media contribute to the sense that the government is the enemy, and they suppress the sources of real power…

— Noam Chomsky

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

— Peter Kuznick

Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom.

— Ron Paul

If we quickly cast aside our constitutional form of government, then the enemy will not be the terrorists, it will be us.

— John Conyers

We can't expect Wall Street to police itself - that's why we have a federal government.

— Martin O'Malley

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it…

— Donald Rumsfeld

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the…

— Harold Washington

Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off…

— Joe Wurzelbacher