Government has a rightful role, but not an excessive role, to play. — Jeff Fortenberry Copy Share Image
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I want a smaller government, yes, but I want a government that will be fair. — Maxime Bernier Copy Share Image
Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them? — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
One of the biggest challenges for any Home Secretary - indeed, any government - is how we deal with emerging threats. — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
My job is to be skeptical: skeptical of people like Edward Snowden and skeptical of the U.S. government. — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
Government cannot guarantee much, but it can and should guarantee freedom of opportunity. — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties. — William Weld Copy Share Image
For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good.… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
What most surprises me about Brazil is the extent of the difficulties that we create for ourselves. We create a lot of… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulders; and… — Bible Copy Share Image
The [EU] Council of Ministers will have far more power over the budgets of member states than the federal government in the… — Jean-Claude Trichet Copy Share Image
The Human Rights Act is not a terrorists' charter. It enables ordinary citizens to seek redress when the government breaches fundamental freedoms… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assuming in every part… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
As a result of the policies of my government, black money in real estate sector has declined substantially, the prices of houses… — Ram Nath Kovind Copy Share Image
In Turkey also, for a long time, the military was the decisive force but in the past 10 years they have backed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Unconditional love is like a country of two with no laws and no government. Which is all fine if everyone is peaceful… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
So I do think sometimes the political mechanism is completely disconnected from the people. However, what I will say is that history… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
... I must say this concerning the great controversy over rifles and shotguns. The only thing I've ever said is that in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When John Kennedy attempted to take the government back from the back from the robber barons, he was brutally murdered. The message… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
Foreigners have a complex set of associations in their minds when they think of America - from Iraq to 9/11, certainly, but… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the care of the victims of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
At its core, government welfare is predicated on a false compassion. — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If this government is like the last one, then Iraq will break apart. — Saleh al-Mutlaq Copy Share Image