Quotes About Government

The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.

Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.

We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.

You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.

Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.

Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.

But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.

I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.

An 'unintended pregnancy' could be a wonderful surprise, not planned but welcome. Why should the government be in the business of 'preventing' a surprising but welcome pregnancy

The [Ronald] Reagan administration told the business world that they were not going to enforce the labor laws.

I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.

There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.

The Value-Added Tax, a sales tax that applies at every level of business transactions, is an easy tax for governments to collect, and a hard tax to evade.

You make deals in business and in government if you're smart.

The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.