Government Quotes
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Government is supposed to be neutral on religion. It has no business telling people how, when, or where to pray—or even if they ought to pray. Government does lots of things well, but meddling in our private religious lives is not among them.
Barry W. Lynn -
The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.
George Will
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People don't like the government telling them what to do or telling them how to live their lives.
Collin Peterson -
One of Obama’s greatest failures will be his legacy of making millions completely dependent on government handouts, not work....So sad.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.
Rick Perry -
It has been an honor to work in the Barack Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.
Dennis A. Ross -
Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.
George Will -
I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.
Evgeny Morozov
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I have always felt that the real purpose of government is to enhance the lives of people and that a leader can best do that by restraining government in most cases instead of enlarging it at every opportunity.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. -
Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
Molly Ivins -
My father loved to complain about big business and big government, but we had a solid middle class upbringing. We had good public schools. We had accessible health care. We had our little, you know, one-family house that, you know, he saved up his money, didn't believe in mortgages.
Hillary Clinton -
National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
Terence McKenna -
Government . . . is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection.
Andrew Horning -
What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.
George Will
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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
Molly Ivins -
In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.
Rick Perry -
It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government’s or the private sector’s, by printing enough money to pay for it in depreciated dollars.
Caroline Baum -
We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.
George Will -
I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.
Howard Stern -
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand