3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
3 December 2020 John Podhoretz The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can’t be allowed to happen.
3 December 2020 Arnold Schwarzenegger As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.
3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that.
3 December 2020 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
3 December 2020 Marco Rubio Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
3 December 2020 Colin Powell We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein The universe never did make sense I suspect it was built on government contract.
3 December 2020 Rick Perry President Obama’s call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.
3 December 2020 Noam Chomsky The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.
3 December 2020 Edward Gibbon Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
3 December 2020 Louis Farrakhan I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.
3 December 2020 Will Rogers On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
3 December 2020 Cullen Hightower The mistakes made by Congress wouldn’t be so bad if the next Congress didn’t keep trying to correct them.
3 December 2020 George Washington Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
3 December 2020 David Hume Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
3 December 2020 Jesse Ventura There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can’t possibly all be served by government.
3 December 2020 Barbara Bush I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
3 December 2020 Rand Paul I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We’ve come to take our government back.
