3 December 2020 Confucius He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
3 December 2020 Arnold Schwarzenegger Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
3 December 2020 William Lyon Mackenzie King Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
3 December 2020 Glenn Beck We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.
3 December 2020 Richard Lamm Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
3 December 2020 Harold Pinter Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
3 December 2020 Mitch Daniels The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.
3 December 2020 Hugo Black Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.
3 December 2020 Dave Eggers I’m interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.
3 December 2020 Rush Limbaugh You could afford your house without the government if it weren’t for the government.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
3 December 2020 Stafford Cripps Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
3 December 2020 Spiro T. Agnew A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
3 December 2020 Tom Robbins Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
3 December 2020 Jeff Miller We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
3 December 2020 Voltaire The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
3 December 2020 Eliot Spitzer I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.
3 December 2020 Rick Perry It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.
3 December 2020 Joseph Sobran Most Americans aren’t the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.
3 December 2020 Scott Walker I promised to empower the taxpayer – instead of a handful of big government union bosses.
3 December 2020 Mitt Romney By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.
3 December 2020 Sam Ewing The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
