I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
The U.S. government has a problem with dead people. For one thing, it pays them way too much money. — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is behind it. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just. — Ginny Brown-Waite Copy Share Image
When I was young, there was only one TV channel, sponsored by the government, and it only broadcast things like what the… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
If you look back at history, [Dale ] Carnegie highlighted the need for libraries to be a place where everyone could go… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Washington politicians think that government can make better decisions than you and me. But we know better. We know it's smaller, less… — Brad Wenstrup Copy Share Image
I came up in a time where the assumption was, in the '60s and '70s, where the federal government was a great… — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way. The United States government has assembled a massive investigation team into me personally, into my work with… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity,… — William Safire Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that,… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
You wouldn't want to underestimate the perfidy of the government. I have no doubt that the government will need to increase revenues… — Porter Stansberry Copy Share Image
Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
There was only really one time that I had a substantive interaction with the president [Barak Obama] directly, and that was in… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In America, we need to go forward in nationalizing several large corporations: I think that's possible; we nationalized General Motors; we nationalized… — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
At the end of any peace deal, the decision-maker will be the government of Afghanistan. — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government. — Ian Paisley Copy Share Image
“It seems that in the USA that those who should be jailed respond by targeting those who expose them with termination.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
No government proposal more complicated than "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" ever works. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Our message in NSW is government don't need to run businesses that are out of date when the private sector can do… — Gladys Berejiklian Copy Share Image
The era of roadside decisions, declarations have gone. My government's decisions will be guided by teamwork and consultations. — Mwai Kibaki Copy Share Image
No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
The Blue and White government, led by me, will assemble the strongest security cabinet against terrorism and restore deterrence. — Benny Gantz Copy Share Image
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
In the 1820s, westerners and political outsiders worried that rich men in the east had commandeered the government for their own ends. — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous. — Mike Rogers Copy Share Image
Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people. — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image