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Famous Quotes
- Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.
- Mitt Romney on Government
- Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.
- Paul Ryan on Government
- Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.
- William Hague on Government
- Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
- John Foster Dulles on Government
- Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.
- Marco Rubio on Government
- Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
- Edward Gibbon on Government
- Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
- Will Rogers on Government
- Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
- Herbert Spencer on Government
- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
- Will Rogers on Government
- On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.
- Mitt Romney on Government
- 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 on Government
- One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.
- Vito Fossella on Government
- One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
- Donald Trump on Government
- One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.
- Lee Iacocca on Government
- One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.
- Scott Walker on Government
- One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk.
- Ron Fournier on Government
- One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
- Ronald Reagan on Government
- Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
- Milton Friedman on Government
- Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people.
- Muqtada Al Sadr on Government
- Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!
- Rick Perry on Government
- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
- John Adams on Government
- Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
- Gerald R. Ford on Government
- Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
- Paul Ryan on Government
- Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.
- Steve King on Government
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
- Joe Biden on Government
- Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.
- Rick Perry on Government
- Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.
- Grover Norquist on Government
- Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Government
- Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
- Douglas MacArthur on Government
- Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
- Andrew Jackson on Government
- Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.
- Sarah Palin on Government
- Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law unto himself it invites anarchy.
- Louis D. Brandeis on Government
- Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
- Gerald R. Ford on Government
- Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?
- Thomas Frank on Government
- Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
- Adrian Cronauer on Government
- Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.
- Mitt Romney on Government
- Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
- Thurgood Marshall on Government
- Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
- Steve Allen on Government
- 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 on Government
- Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.
- Imran Khan on Government
- Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
- Mark Twain on Government
- Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
- Aung San Suu Kyi on Government
- People create jobs, not the government.
- Scott Walker on Government
- People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.
- George W. Bush on Government
- People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.
- Arlen Specter on Government
- People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.
- Sarah Palin on Government
- People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.
- Glenn Beck on Government
- People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
- Benjamin Carson on Government
- People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
- Robert Half on Government
- People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
- Cal Thomas on Government
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