Politics Quote by Milton Friedman

“Governments are bigger than ever, but under neoliberalism they have far less pretense to being concerned with addressing non-corporate interests. And”

— Noam Chomsky

“Government action causes special interest reaction.”

— Eric Robert Morse

“It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It is a feature of government that the more important the problem, the further it tends to be removed from handling by anyone well…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent…

— John C. Calhoun

To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government as a barrier against foreign foes... is [one of the] functions of…

— Thomas Jefferson

A government should not become too big to fulfill one of its most basic functions: representation.

— Zephyr Teachout

The more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must…

— Henry Hazlitt

“Every function superadded to those already exercised by the government causes its influence over hopes and fears to be more widely diffused, and converts,…

— John Stuart Mill

“If the whole community takes a decision, actors and interests are identical: they coincide. In the case of popular sovereignty the people are the…

— Leo Klinkers

The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they…

— James Madison

Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson