Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government!… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
A wiretap allows government agents to collect, listen to, read, rifle through and store emails, snail mail, phone calls, text messages, photographs,… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in… — Pedro Pierluisi Copy Share Image
I like policy. It's why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government - you have good days,… — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
Hello, my name is the republican party, and I have a problem. I am addicted to spending and the government - and… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The fact that refugees traveled through six other countries, like former Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, France, Germany, Holland, is because they… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
You can at least let sick people have marijuana because it's helpful. But the compassionate conservatives say, well we can't do this,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
When the US government got word that I was planning to leave Russia to go to Latin America, they brought down the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“A mere enumeration of government activity is evidence -- often the sole evidence offered -- of "inadequate" nongovernment institutions, whose "inability" to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a… — William Borah Copy Share Image
The mixing of government and religion can be a threat to free government, even if no one is forced to participate… When… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
Apparently, this really was Kill Charley Davidson Week. Or at least Horribly Maim Her… It would probably never get government recognition, though,… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
A dollar vigilante is a free market individual who protests the government monopoly and financial policies, such as fractional reserve banking and… — Jeff Berwick Copy Share Image
The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
There is one central characteristic of anarchism on the matter of means, and that central principle is a principle of direct action… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Growth rates were highest in the 1960s at 4.55 percent for the decade, when we created Medicare, Medicaid, and the Great Society… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
“Her friends, comrades…they were like family, and to see the change that had come over them all was just another painful reminder… — Victoria Lynn Copy Share Image
On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards… — Meriwether Lewis Copy Share Image
We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The Tea Party elites gained extraordinary influence by being able to funnel millions of undisclosed dollars into campaigns with ads that distort… — Chuck Schumer Copy Share Image
Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The message of David Duke, is this, basically: Big government, anti-big government, get out of my pocketbook, cut my taxes, put welfare… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform… — Philip Hammond Copy Share Image
In short, Republicans under Trump have finally destroyed the New Deal, turning the government over to a small cadre of wealthy businessmen,… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, I am a proud Republican, and I want to support my party. I am a firm believer in… — David Schweikert Copy Share Image
They pushed us into the fight to defund Obamacare and shut down the government. And the day before the government reopened, one… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
Much more has to be done to democratize the food movement. One of the reasons that healthy food is more expensive than… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
The biggest problem confronting the country is our excessive spending. If we're not going to deal with it now, when are we… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
