One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. — Dale Dauten Copy Share Image
“Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“I am not in favor of having government do anything that private citizens can do as good or better” — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
We have a balance of $ .32 in the bank . . . Which makes us four-and-a-half trillion dollars richer than the federal government. — Jim Borgman Copy Share Image
Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism. — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
Candidates seeking the highest office in our government deserve the opportunity to be fully heard. — Harris Faulkner Copy Share Image
The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
In states where Republicans have gerrymandered themselves into nearly impenetrable legislative majorities, they have also taken steps to try to close the… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A lot of people in the western world don't realize how much taxes limit their options. You can end up paying almost… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
Discussion of politics and government almost totally ignores the concept of training people to update their opinions in response to new evidence… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don't get… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Republicans, supposed defenders of limited government, actually are enablers of an unlimited presidency. Their belief in strict construction of the Constitution evaporates,… — George Will Copy Share Image
“You are constantly being trained to be heroic only in the service of your masters - only in slaughter and sacrifice and… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Our leaders ranged from bad to extraordinary. But through it all, the GOP was the one party even vaguely amenable to limited-government… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive.… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I want to say that this business of corruption and the fight against corruption is a very serious matter, and sometimes I'm… — Yemi Osinbajo Copy Share Image
The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
I'm not against business. I'm against big business in bed with big government. — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“Just be glad you're not getting all the government you're paying for” — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Impartiality is the life of justice, as justice is of all good government. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more. — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
