3 December 2020 Martin Sheen I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.
3 December 2020 Adam Carolla All’s the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
3 December 2020 Muqtada al Sadr If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government – a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.
3 December 2020 Clarence Thomas I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people’s lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run.
3 December 2020 Denis Diderot Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
3 December 2020 James Dyson Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.
3 December 2020 Jim Hightower The corporations don’t have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
3 December 2020 Tony Campolo From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.
3 December 2020 Kin Hubbard I don’t look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.
3 December 2020 Imran Khan Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.
3 December 2020 Howard Zinn When people don’t understand that the government doesn’t have their interests in mind, they’re more susceptible to go to war.
3 December 2020 James Bovard It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.
3 December 2020 Pat Robertson The thought about Republicans is, we’re supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
3 December 2020 Theresa May 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.
3 December 2020 Wendell Willkie It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
3 December 2020 Charley Reese Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.
3 December 2020 Newt Gingrich Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it’s bold. It’s out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it’s hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.
3 December 2020 Tom Colicchio So you can say, ‘Get Big Government out of here, and don’t tell me what to eat,’ but when kids are going to school, and they’re being fed junk, we’re pretty much telling them what to eat, and we’re telling them junk is OK.
3 December 2020 Iain Duncan Smith All too often, government’s response to social breakdown has been a classic case of ‘patching’ – a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting – even reinforcing – dysfunctional behaviour.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
3 December 2020 Paul Ryan We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.
3 December 2020 Rafik Hariri And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.
3 December 2020 Rand Paul I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who’s handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.
3 December 2020 Lucy Powell The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
3 December 2020 Bill Owens As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.
