Around the corner Quote by Barack Obama

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us

— Barack Obama

The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that

— Patricia Schroeder

I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and…

— Naomi Novik

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.

— Ted Nugent

“Anti-government rhetoric appears to offer a vision of greater efficiency, self-reliance, and personal freedom. (For obvious reasons, it also usually enjoys greater financial backing…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.

— Thomas Jefferson

There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances…

— Jonathan Shapiro

“The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of the legislature…

— Thomas Jefferson

Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home

— Winston Churchill

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

When you say something like, 'Well, there's a lot of visceral dislike of what our agency is doing,' I think you have to, first…

— Lina Khan

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

— Peter Kuznick