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Quotes About Government

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?
~ Will Rogers
The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenryThis is for usThis is for us when our government becomes tyrannical
~ Sharron Angle
Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences.
~ Michael Arrington
People in the UK will say that the design community in the US is much more coherent than other countries. It has no government support at all, so it's really like a grass roots thing.
~ Michael Bierut
Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.
~ Michael Bloomberg
I think fully, that an independent candidate can't win in this country. The Constitution is structured for basically a two-party government, a two-party race.
~ Michael Bloomberg
In government procurement, for example, the opportunity German firms have in the United States is 10 times larger than in Canada.
~ Michael Froman
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.
~ Michael Newdow
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
~ Max Hastings
Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.
~ Melinda Gates
I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.
~ Scott Walker
The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.
~ Michael Oxley
Toupée or not toupée for professional government: that is the hair-raising question created by Donald Trump's candidacy.
~ Michael R. Burch
I know these days it sounds a little odd, but American governments are very fearful of European reaction. They were afraid we would be considered gunslingers.
~ Michael Scheuer
'Let's Move!' is not about having government tell people what to do, because government doesn't have all the answers.
~ Michelle Obama
If the government can't track illegals, then let's outsource the job to UPS or FedEx.
~ Mike Huckabee
Iran is a rich country, and if the people of this country are poor, it's because of the wrong policies of the government.
~ Shirin Ebadi
I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.
~ Michael Moriarty
I think people are tuning out the political class, tuning out the national media, and the American people are just gonna - we're just gonna demand government as good as our people again.
~ Mike Pence
It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the automatic response to the oil crisis.
~ Milton Friedman
It's not government that makes business successful. It's not government investments that makes businesses grow and hire people.
~ Mitt Romney
Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government.
~ Mitt Romney
When government is... bailing out banks... we have every good reason to be alarmed.
~ Mitt Romney