Quotes About Government

The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, 'See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk.

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

Government programs didn't arise because the people demanded them or because the free market was unable to provide needed services. They arose because the politicians found them to be a convenient way to buy votes with other people's money, a convenient way to enlarge their own power, a convenient way to reward their political cronies, and a convenient way to keep people dependent on government.

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

Absolutely every government regulation is enforced by violence. If you've never seen that violence, it's because you've been careful, obedient, or lucky.

The larger the  government,  the  less  efficient  and  productive  is  the  economy.  Slaves  don't produce with the enthusiasm, incentive, and imagination that free people do. Bureaucratic programs just don't work as intended.

people who always thought, "It's different here." They failed to realize that no government obeys laws. It will change, overrule, ignore, or defy them whenever they get in its way. To count on the law to protect you is a grave mistake.

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.

Two, four, six, eight—Welfare rations come too late. Three, five, seven, nine—Medicare is still behind.

The Welfare ration cards took care of everything, everything that kept you alive and just alive enough to hate it.

Kentucky as a whole has lagged behind the rest of the nation in almost every field of government and public service, primarily because the fiercely independent and uncooperative mentality of the frontier hunter-farmer has remained so deeply and tenaciously embedded in the mass psyche.

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." [ Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States , August 8, 1950]

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.

The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don't have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.