3 December 2020 Benjamin Carson Nobody is starving on the streets. We’ve always taken care of them. We take care of our own we always have. It is not the government’s responsibility.
3 December 2020 David Attenborough Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
3 December 2020 Cal Thomas 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.
3 December 2020 Hugo Chavez Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
3 December 2020 John Adams The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
3 December 2020 Andrew Jackson 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.
3 December 2020 Stephen Harper We’ll support the government on issues if it’s essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
3 December 2020 Xenophon Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Chamfort If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke 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.
3 December 2020 Jeremy Bentham Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
3 December 2020 Donald Evans As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government’s role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.
3 December 2020 Ginger Baker I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.
3 December 2020 Daniel Webster Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
3 December 2020 Ron Paul There is only one kind of freedom and that’s individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
3 December 2020 James Madison The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
3 December 2020 Tom Coburn Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice.
3 December 2020 Richard Lamm Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want – and their kids pay for it.
3 December 2020 Muqtada al Sadr I don’t want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don’t want to be controlled by the U.S.
3 December 2020 Bob Woodward The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
3 December 2020 Drew Carey 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.
3 December 2020 Scott Walker I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn’t work. So when ‘they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,’ it’s actually a ‘false choice.’
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
3 December 2020 William O. Douglas The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
3 December 2020 John W. Gardner When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
3 December 2020 Michael Badnarik Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.
