Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government…

It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

“It’s just like Chinatown and all the laws passed to contain us. We were never the enemy. The enemy was our country’s own fear.”

— Outrun the Moon Stacey Lee

Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

— Frank Zappa

“Sumptuary laws were passed to regulate fashions, particularly those of the third order.37 Rising standards of living and Epicurean attitudes had produced new tastes…

— Robert Steven Gottfried

First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the Federal Government,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure way of…

— Richard Pipes

There is nothing more important for a government than getting its budget through.

— Annastacia Palaszczuk

I thought the whole idea of being a conservative was to keep the government from messing around in people's lives. And yet they say…

— Edward Zigler

In city government, it's about getting things done, not being judged on a scorecard of whether you said yes or no on a certain…

— Michelle Wu

There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Obviously, whenever the government is getting involved with speech, it gives me a lot of pause. I have a background as a journalist, so…

— Brianna Wu

I'm seeing too much power being concentrated in the executive branch, and so our system of government is really in jeopardy, and more importantly,…

— Ana Kasparian

A wise man once sat in the audience and cracked a joke. All laughed like crazy. After a moment, he cracked the same joke…

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Too much power. Too much. Even the Blood weren’t meant to wield this much power. Even Witch had never controlled this much power. This…

— Anne Bishop

“We have made some collective mistakes as a species, it’s true – invested too much power in things we can’t see, let alone control.…

— Alastair Reynolds