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Quotes About Government

A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.
~ Colonel Sanders
The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
~ Calvin Coolidge
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.
~ James Dyson
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
~ Ronald Reagan
Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?
~ Phylicia Rashad
Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
~ Nathan Meyer Rothschild
Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.
~ Carl Menger
I see a government completely out of control, and money is number one. Integrity isn't even on the map.
~ Neil Young
Microeconomics: The study of who has the money and how I can get my hands on it.Macroeconomics: The study of which government agency has the gun, and how we can get our hands on it.
~ Gary North
That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.
~ Will Rogers
The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.
~ Ronald Reagan
Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.
~ Elon Musk
In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to think about that now. Who is to stop them.
~ Gertrude Stein
There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
~ Adam Smith
It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.
~ Arthur Laffer
Social Security is a fraudulent scheme in which the government collect money from you for your retirement - and immediately spend the money on something else.
~ Harry Browne
Why does the UN need to raise money for ebola? Can't the gov just print the damn dollars themselves and get this done already.
~ Azealia Banks
When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.
~ Stefan Molyneux
The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.
~ Mike Huckabee
If someone from the government tries to put his hands on your money... run away as fast as you can and tell the nearest conservative.
~ Andrew Klavan
The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.
~ Anthony Burgess