c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.
— Charles B. Rangel
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
— Thomas Jefferson
Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.
— bell hooks
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
— Paul Harvey
All government, of course, is against liberty.
— H. L. Mencken
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest.
— John Lynch
The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
— Orrin Hatch
Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.
— Darrell Issa
I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.
— David Cameron
I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals and try to protect corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations.
— Ziggy Marley
Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security.
— Kit Bond
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
— Lysander Spooner
And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.
— Sharron Angle
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
— Hugo Black
Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously, without damaging reservations, without irritating mistrust.
— Jose Rizal
While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad's strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the Iceberg Skating Palace, visibly moved, smiling with deep satisfaction, as the Russians beautifully glided and leaped their way to the gold medal in the team event.
— George Packer
Government does not solve problems it subsidizes them. 
— Ronald Reagan
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
— John Quincy Adams
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
— Chinua Achebe
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
— Pope Francis
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
— Grover Cleveland
Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.
— Manmohan Singh
The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.
— James K. Polk
The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.
— Martin Van Buren
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
— William Howard Taft
To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.
— John Lynch
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
— James Madison
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
— Spiro T. Agnew
I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.
— Imran Khan
The crowning feature of the federal system is the supremacy of the judiciary over all other branches of government in matters relating to the rights of persons and property.
— Charles A. Beard
The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
— Andrew Johnson
The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.
— Vladimir Putin
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
— George Washington
During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
— Al Franken
Democracy passes into despotism.
— Plato
I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
— Robert E. Lee
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
— Jimmy Carter
Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.
— James K. Polk
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
— Plato
I follow a set of principles, I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom and individual liberty.
— Justin Amash
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
— Frank Herbert
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a flag is a symbol that expresses an idea - I hate the government, the government is unjust, whatever.
— Antonin Scalia
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
— John Adams
We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.
— Kim Jong Il
An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.
— Tom Coburn
We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.
— Tim Scott
This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.
— Gracie Allen
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
— Woodrow Wilson
I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong.
— Cindy Sheehan
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
— Madeleine Albright
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
— Grover Norquist
A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.
— Joseph Story
Virtual currency, where it's called a bitcoin vs. a U.S. dollar, that's going to be stopped. No government will ever support a virtual currency that goes around borders and doesn't have the same controls. It's not going to happen.
— Jamie Dimon
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
— Robert A. Heinlein
No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.
— Brad Henry
Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.
— Said Musa
Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.
— John Edward Redmond
Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.
— Ron Kind
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
— James Bovard
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
— Dean Inge
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
— William Howard Taft
As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.
— Michelle Bachelet
Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.
— Bob Barr
Pray for someone else's child, your pastor, the military, the police officers, the firemen, the teachers, the government. There's no end to the ways that you can intervene on behalf of others through prayer.
— Monica Johnson
If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.
— Roy Moore
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
— William Penn
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
— Woody Allen
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Democracy must learn to defend itself.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.
— Martin L. Gross
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
— Thomas Jefferson
The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.
— Geronimo
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.
— Jeremiah Wright
We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.
— Mehmet Oz
It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.
— Jimmy Carter
The true principle of taxation is the benefit principle - those who benefit from a government service should pay for it. It's also known as the 'user pay' principle. Every effort should be made to link the payment of taxes or fees to the cost associated with the government service.
— Mark Skousen
Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.
— Julius Genachowski
After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, and the federal government has allowed Puerto Rico to exercise authority over its local affairs in a manner similar to the 50 states.
— Pedro Pierluisi
In a country where Americans sense, quite genuinely, that their freedoms have been taken away by the government - as in the U.S. Patriot Act, as in NSA surveillance - people feel powerless.
— Jay Parini
The white working class wants jobs. They don't want to be stuck trying to make ends meet with part-time work and government assistance. They want a good paying job that they can take pride in. The type of job that has fled America thanks to the Left.
— Milo Yiannopoulos
The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.
— Lal Bahadur Shastri
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
— Will Rogers
Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
— Walter Bagehot
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
— Lysander Spooner
The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs.
— Joe Lieberman
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
— John Jay Chapman
The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.
— Arlen Specter
It is critical that Democratic candidates, whether they are in New Jersey, or Virginia, or anywhere, emphasize the fact that we can be trusted, and can bring fiscal integrity to our state, local, and national government.
— Mark Warner
And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.
— Alphonso Jackson
Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
— Corazon Aquino
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
— William Godwin
Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it.
— Lionel Murphy
The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.
— John Hume
Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.
— Charles B. Rangel
And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
— Wole Soyinka
For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
— Gerry Adams
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
— Buffalo Bill
All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.
— Steven Hatfill
A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
— Barbara Jordan
It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
— Thomas Clarkson
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
— George Bancroft
I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.
— Rob Portman
We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.
— Colin Powell
In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.
— Fareed Zakaria
In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes,' is committed to ending the colonialism, racism and exclusion that many of our people lived under for many centuries.
— Evo Morales
It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.
— Simon Mainwaring
We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs.
— Atifete Jahjaga
Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.
— Carl Bernstein
The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.
— Bob Barr
A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded.
— James Dobson
I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things.
— Jeff Kinney
If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I will work in partnership with the Government, all political parties, and civil society to safeguard and advance the future of all Singaporeans.
— Tony Tan
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
— Winston Churchill
If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
— Ronald Reagan
If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
— Belle Boyd
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
— Milton Friedman
There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.
— Arthur C. Brooks
Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.
— Chuck D
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
— Albert Camus
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
It is not good to have a rule of many.
— Homer
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
— Lord Acton
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
— Ronald Reagan
As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.
— Drew Carey
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
— Barack Obama
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
— Pierre Trudeau
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
— Clement Attlee
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
— Harry S Truman
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
— William Jennings Bryan
If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.
— Peggy Noonan
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
— Barbara Tuchman
One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.
— Huey Long
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
— Harry S Truman
Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words 'abortion' or 'tax hikes' pass their lips.
— Ann Coulter
Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.
— Bob Riley
When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.
— Byron Dorgan
Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.
— Jose Eduardo dos Santos
I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.
— Robert Kocharian
Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.
— Ed Rendell
The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.
— William E. Simon
The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.
— Stephen Harper
Everything government touches turns to crap.
— Ringo Starr
The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.
— Stockwell Day
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.
— Mitch Kapor
I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less.
— Stephen Breyer
It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.
— Timothy Thomas Fortune
Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.
— Richard Scaife
One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.
— Nelson A. Miles
As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.
— Gavin Newsom
My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.
— Kevin Mitnick
We must be loyal to the forum of our government.
— Bainbridge Colby
No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization.
— Matthew Lesko
Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be surpassed by China as the number one purchaser of our debt in this Nation.
— Ron Kind
The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.
— Philip Emeagwali
And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.
— Roy Moore
Rights come from God, not from government.
— Roy Moore
We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
— L. Neil Smith
Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol.
— John Charles Polanyi
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
— Maggie Gallagher
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
— Ida B. Wells
We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.
— Ferdinand Mount
In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
— Martin Van Buren
Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.
— Leland Stanford
The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
— Arthur Scargill
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
— John Boyd Orr
We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.
— Buenaventura Durruti
And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.
— Clarence Thomas
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
— Charles de Secondat
There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.
— Jesse Ventura
I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
— Harold Pinter
The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
— Lalu Prasad Yadav
It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
— Will Rogers
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
— Herbert Spencer
I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.
— Eric C. Anderson
After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.
— Sheikh Hasina
I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
— Andrew Jackson
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
— Andrew Jackson
Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.
— Louie Gohmert
You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
— Rand Paul
We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market.
— Jim Bunning
We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.
— Carl Paladino
Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban them operating as legally structured entities in Australia.
— Julie Bishop
We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.
— Theresa May
I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function.
— Arthur Laffer
We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionally limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.
— Mike Lee
We should be able to go to our government and get clear answers.
— Wesley Snipes
Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.
— Ari Fleischer
I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.
— Darrell Issa
If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?
— David Frum
This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.
— Mitt Romney
It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.
— Mitt Romney
We talked about many issues, like welfare, is it the way of life or hand up? Talked about size of government, how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, 'I'll be damned. we're Republicans.'
— Susana Martinez
The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms.
— Grover Norquist
Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.
— John Bolton
One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.
— Hillary Clinton
There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
— Frances O'Grady
The oil companies are regulated by the federal government. They can't drill on land nor in American waters without permission from the feds. Many Republicans want to drill baby drill but what's the point if all the oil goes to China? Increased production obviously doesn't mean lower prices for us.
— Bill O'Reilly
I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.
— William Hague
Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head.
— Leon Panetta
Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?
— J. C. Watts
Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.
— Ai Weiwei
The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.
— Andy Sawford
Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
— Harry Browne
Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.
— John Podhoretz
Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.
— Michael Enzi
I have been supporting the European Union, but we are still a work in progress. We have to become more of a United States of Europe. We should talk about electing a president of the E.U., rather than having one selected from the heads of government.
— George Papandreou
Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies. However, whatever your sentiments about the government's bailout of General Motors, for every job Barack Obama 'saved-or-created' in the U.S. there were two jobs off shore.
— Bob Beauprez
I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
I do strongly believe myself that members of the government who sit in the House of Lords should be accountable to the elected House because otherwise there is a democratic deficit, and that is wrong.
— John Bercow
There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.
— Taylor Branch
Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
It's tough and it should be tough - it should never be easy to be given millions of pounds to make a drama. The coalition government is doing terrible things to the BBC, but drama will survive even if we end up putting on a play in a backroom of a pub.
— Russell T Davies
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.
— Lysander Spooner
The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.
— Pat Paulsen
What has been adjudicated and established in the wake of Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement is the ability of the press to basically write or broadcast almost anything about the government. There's very few restrictions in that way.
— Lowell Bergman
The tenth amendment said the federal government is supposed to only have powers that were explicitly given in the Constitution. I think the federal government's gone way beyond that. The Constitution never said that you could have a Federal Reserve that would have $2.8 trillion in assets. We've gotten out of control.
— David Malpass
The phrase 'perception is reality' is overused generally. But perception can be reality in monetary policy. The bond market doesn't act merely on what it sees. It acts on what it expects of the Fed or the government.
— Amity Shlaes
It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
— Wen Jiabao
Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.
— Rick Perry
The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.
— Thomas Sowell
We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winners and losers. Where do you go if you want special favors? Government. Where do you go if you want a tax break? Government. Where do you go if you want a handout? Government. This must stop.
— Bobby Jindal
The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.
— Michele Bachmann
Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.
— Don Tapscott
SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.
— Elon Musk
Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life, it is important.
— Rahul Dravid
Healthcare should be between the doctor and the patient. And if the doctor says something needs to be done, the government should guarantee it gets paid for.
— Michael Moore
American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead. 
— Tom Wolfe
I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.
— Tony Blair
Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of the 20th century, who actually did shift government policy in the U.S. and around the world, were John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman. I don't see anybody in our system who is at that level of influence.
— Adam Davidson
The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Taiwan becoming a local government of the People's Republic of China or a Special Administrative Region of China.
— Chen Shui-bian
You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.
— Ani DiFranco
Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.
— David Mamet
Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.
— Brendan I. Koerner
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 still there.
— P. J. O'Rourke
If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.
— Mitt Romney
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.
— Mitt Romney
I think governments can't do much.
— Dalai Lama
Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian form of government. This is a constitutional republic, and the president doesn't allow or disallow. The president can't buy or purchase.
— Rush Limbaugh
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
— Rand Paul
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
— Ronald Reagan
We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.
— Penn Jillette
The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations.
— Simon Sinek
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
— Will Rogers
When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
— Al Franken
Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.
— Jesse Ventura
We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.
— Paul Ryan
President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44,000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1, national defense is the first priority of the federal government.
— Paul Ryan
When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.
— Thomas Sowell