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Quotes About Government

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.
~ Billy Graham
I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.
~ Cindy Sheehan
We live in a regime built on force and lies. In essence, it's the same here as in Uzbekistan, except the government here is better at presenting itself to the outside world.
~ Isa Gambar
The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research.
~ Sandy Adams
The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.
~ Daniel Webster
Bitcoin is not a currency for a government; it is a global currency for the people.
~ Wences Casares
We who live in free market societies believe that growth and prosperity, and ultimately human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down.
~ Ronald Reagan
The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system.
~ John Mica
If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom.
~ Marc Faber
Question Period is not part of the legislative process,and has nothing to do with it. It is a means of monitoring the Executive that the Government cannot evade.
~ John Allen Fraser
Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.
~ Edmund Burke
We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment from God.
~ John Ashcroft
Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
~ William Weld
The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.
~ Dixie Lee Ray
Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.
~ Esther Dyson
Republican governors are leading the way in helping the private sector create new jobs, reforming government and getting our economy back on track.
~ Bob McDonnell
Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.
~ Michael O'Donoghue
Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
~ Malcolm X
As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances are political prisoners
~ Paul Krassner
It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.
~ Jeremy Bentham
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott