3 December 2020 Sandra Day O'Connor Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.
3 December 2020 Clarence Thomas 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.
3 December 2020 Tim Scott We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn’t.
3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
3 December 2020 Michael Bloomberg I don’t believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it’s so outdated.
3 December 2020 Robert Orben Washington is a place where politicians don’t know which way is up and taxes don’t know which way is down.
3 December 2020 James F. Cooper All that a good government aims at… is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.
3 December 2020 Marco Rubio We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.
3 December 2020 Richard J. Daley Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him one doubted Him one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn’t have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?
3 December 2020 Wole Soyinka 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.
3 December 2020 William Hague I’m not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.
3 December 2020 James Buchan Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.
3 December 2020 Joe Biden I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.
3 December 2020 Gerald R. Ford Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
3 December 2020 George McGovern Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it’s our partner.
3 December 2020 Al-Waleed bin Talal I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.
3 December 2020 Rush Limbaugh You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Carson This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they’re doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
3 December 2020 Rand Paul 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.
3 December 2020 Lewis Mumford The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
3 December 2020 Paul Harvey Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don’t vote.
3 December 2020 Glenn Beck 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.
3 December 2020 Alexander Hamilton It’s not tyranny we desire it’s a just, limited, federal government.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
