Quotes About Government

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.

The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.

There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.

We need a global parliament, a global government and possibly a global ministry for security.

Tariffs protect ill-considered government policies, such as costly regulations and high taxes on labor and capital that make our goods uncompetitive in international markets.

I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.

It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.

You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.

I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.

A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.

It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

Everything you heard about me is true. . . . I am not a free marketer. . . . I believe in the heavy hand of government.

Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.

Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.