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Government Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
- You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can…
- You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes…
- During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows.…
- When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy…
- The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand.…
- When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power…
- If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit…
- How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no resources whatsoever gets…
- Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow…
- There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable...in large part,…
- Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it…
- The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit
- Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.
- The main reason to be opposed to political control of smoking is to keep power -even the smallest and silliest kind of power - out…
- Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities.…
- Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at…
- The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that there is something…
- Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing…
- In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
- No government proposal more complicated than "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" ever works.
- Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the…
- When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
- Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is…
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- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. — Bill Ayers
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida