The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
John Boehner chose a huge gavel. I think somebody's compensating for his small government. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Our way of life, our government defines the way America is. I mean, it's not luck. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
As a life-long liberal who has engaged in protests against the government and for civil rights, I am saddened at efforts by… — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to… — Ian Macfarlane Copy Share Image
Government caters to those screaming the loudest, regardless of what they're screaming about. In business, it's exactly the opposite! You invest more… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
A government by secrecy benefits no one. It injures the people it seeks to serve; it damages its own integrity and operation.… — Russell B. Long Copy Share Image
The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14,000 children were sent away from their families in Cuba, some never to reunite… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
America's got to look after America again. That means taking a realistic appraisal of who is actually at risk in this country,… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“It may sound reactionary, I know. But we can all feel it. We've changed the way we think of ourselves as citizens.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“Ever since 1945 the federal government has held and indeed increased its importance as the first customer of the American economy. Government… — John Morris Roberts Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
People went out there and they wrote articles and went on television shows saying that I am an operative that the CIA… — Bassem Youssef Copy Share Image
Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always -… — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
No more essential duty of government exists than the protection of the lives of its people. Fail in this, and we fail… — Francis T Murphy Copy Share Image
When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve. — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
I want people to feel like they have access to Congress, that they have access to government. — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
The unhoused crisis in our country is a public health emergency, and a moral and policy failure at every level of our… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are… — Jay Kay Copy Share Image
In no civilised country is the head of the government immune from corruption investigation. — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. — Franklin D Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane. — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image