3 December 2020 Golda Meir The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood I’m not really conservative. I’m conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don’t any more.
3 December 2020 Iain Duncan Smith When the news is good, the BBC view is: ‘Get the government out of the picture quickly, don’t allow them to say anything about it.’ When the news is bad: ‘Let’s all dump on the government.’
3 December 2020 Frank Herbert If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
3 December 2020 Lawrence Summers You can’t have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.
3 December 2020 Maynard James Keenan Just in general, any government throughout history hasn’t really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn’t control them as easily.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
3 December 2020 Wendell Phillips To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
3 December 2020 Carly Fiorina Well, you know, I – again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government’s priorities. The federal government’s top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
3 December 2020 Grover Cleveland Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.
3 December 2020 Bono When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
3 December 2020 Samuel Taylor Coleridge The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.
3 December 2020 Chris Christie Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people’s government.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
3 December 2020 Imran Khan I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.
3 December 2020 Paul Ryan The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.
3 December 2020 Sonia Sotomayor I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.
3 December 2020 Lucy Powell As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job.
3 December 2020 Lysander Spooner But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
3 December 2020 Tony Campolo After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.
3 December 2020 Donald Rumsfeld The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.
3 December 2020 Sandra Day O'Connor You have citizens who don’t understand how government works and they’re kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.
3 December 2020 Glenn Beck We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can’t even run our own government.
3 December 2020 Gary Bauer The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded – in part because it impedes the government’s ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.
