Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Either you will control your government, or government will control you. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government. — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Trust me, I've been to countries where there's no government. And our government's pretty damned good. — Amy McGrath Copy Share Image
The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve. — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
Reagan used to say that 'we're a country with a government.' Well, now we're a government with a country, and we're making… — William Binney Copy Share Image
“The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Americans keep telling me they hate government. I always tell them: "Man, I've got a country for you: Go to Afghanistan; they… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Short of a space-alien invasion or an Oklahoma tornado, there is almost no problem that a democracy can tackle in a year.… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to destroy our credit and derange the whole… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
“Governments, whether they are monarchical, constitutional, democratic or communist, depend upon acquiescent public opinion for the success of their efforts and, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The whole Jeffersonian ideal was that people are temporarily in government. Government is not the basic reality. People are. The private sector.… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
“I TEND TO believe in government because it was the U.S. government that paid for my brain surgery when I was five… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
We're not free because other people are nice, maybe other people aren't nice that day. We're free because we expect the institutions… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Government is not infallible. Government is only an executive control, a centralized authority for the purpose of expressing the will of the… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“If “we are the government,” then anything a government does to an individual is not only just and untyrannical but also “voluntary”… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“It is our theory that the people own the government, not that the government should own the people.” — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Think you have a low opinion of government? You should see government's opinion of you! — David Burge Copy Share Image
My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms. — Nicos Anastasiades Copy Share Image
“The nearest approach to a libertarian government was the government of the United States at the time of its inception.” — John Hospers Copy Share Image
There is a government within the government who controll this and i do not controll it — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“The United States is no longer a nation that has a government. It is now a government that has a nation.” — David Ellsworth Copy Share Image
I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
