Politics Quote by David Blum

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison…

— Mitt Romney

In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has been doing…

— Ronald Reagan

“government-controlled programs continue to grow until they destroy themselves.”

— Ben Carson

“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Governments' programs once launched unfortunately never disappear...Get real.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“What is a government but an institutionalized method of making sure somebody else does all the work?”

— Brandon Sanderson

Many programs are built on the government's spending power, and the existence of an extraconstitutional limit on that power is a worrisome development.

— Neal Katyal

“A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it.”

— Paul Kriwaczek

“I propose another explanation: The reason so many Americans have become alienated from government since the poll of 1964 is that government really has…

— Charles Murray

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most…

— Jim DeMint

“We started with entitlement programs that generously met the needs of individuals unable to provide enough for themselves.  This slowly but surely created a…

— G.S. Kyle

“[F]or the nature of government is to become a thing apart, an institution existing for its own sake, preying upon the people, and teaching…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

“Originally, governments had very limited functions. Their purpose was simply to “preserve and protect.” Then someone added “provide.” When governments began to be the…

— Neale Donald Walsch