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Quotes About Government

According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even is asked by the Iraqi government to leave.
~ John Conyers
I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.
~ Kathleen Blanco
I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.
~ Jesse Ventura
It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.
~ Karl Popper
Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government
~ J. P. Morgan
The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.
~ Rose Wilder Lane
When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
~ Ron Paul
A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.
~ Robert B. Reich
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
~ Calvin Coolidge
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
~ Ronald Reagan
Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.
~ William C. Kirby
The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government.
~ Pietro Badoglio
In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.
~ Gerald R. Ford
It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair.
~ George Burns
Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.
~ Nigel Calder
I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up.
~ Jeri Ryan
Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary.
~ Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
~ Barry Goldwater
I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.
~ Scott Walker
The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
~ William O. Douglas
I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.
~ William Hague
It's all part of the pattern. This is a story of scandal and corruption, investigations, refusals to take responsibility. If this government continues in office, this will continue.
~ Stephen Harper