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If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters…

— Raghuram Rajan

If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.

— John Stossel

We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.

— Iqbal Quadir

The prospect, that a good general government will in all human probability be soon established in America, affords me more substantial satisfaction; than I…

— George Washington

Governments don't get elected saying, 'We're going to lower GDP next year,' governments get elected on saying, 'We're going to increase prosperity and the…

— James Righton

No matter what government does or does not do, people need to remember the power is in their hands to make their small part…

— Danielle Colby

We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. … But we have failed utterly to prevent the…

— Matthew Crawford

Countries were told they had no incentives because of social ownership. The solution was privatization and profit, profit, profit. Privatization would replace inefficient state…

— Joseph Stiglitz

“No natural forces determine income, wealth, and the quality of human life. We make the decisions about who will prosper and who will not—or…

— David Cay Johnston

Governments should end the extreme concentration of wealth in order to end poverty. This means tackling tax dodging but also increasing taxes on wealth…

— Winnie Byanyima

The government has, in all countries, a vast influence, in determining the character of the national consumption; not only because it absolutely directs the…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A frugal government…

— Charley Reese