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Quotes About Government

...[the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service,...and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at] delivering...service.
~ Ron Paul
Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?
~ Ron Paul
But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.
~ Ron Paul
I'm not against the FBI investigation in doing a proper role, but I'm against the FBI spying on people like Martin Luther King. I'm against the CIA fighting secret wars and overthrowing government.
~ Ron Paul
Once you get the government involved in agriculture you'll have nothing but problems and expenses.
~ Ron Paul
The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.
~ Ron Suskind
The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.
~ Ronald Reagan
That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.
~ Robin Hobb
For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.
~ Ronald Reagan
Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem.
~ Ronald Reagan
The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.
~ Ronald Reagan
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.
~ Ronald Reagan
No government in the Middle East is innocent. Wars make the stock market go up, so no one in America is innocent either, nor anyone anywhere where capitalism reigns.
~ Roseanne Barr
Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.
~ Roy Jenkins
The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.
~ Rupert Murdoch
All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.
~ Rupert Murdoch
The level of concern and anxiety among scientists - and I guess I'd say the science-friendly public - about the place of science in society in government, has gone beyond concern to anxiety.
~ Rush D. Holt, Jr.
The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.
~ Rush Limbaugh
"Radicalized" is a new keyword for you to understand that allows our government to not say "terrorism."
~ Rush Limbaugh
Our government denies that terrorism is caused by Islamic doctrine. Now, that is true, and it is a declarative statement. It's not arguable.
~ Rush Limbaugh
The Republican Congress is like a groundhog afraid of its shadow when a government shutdown is talked about.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Barack Obama is not only going to reside in Washington and be on call, essentially, with the Drive-By Media, he's setting up what essentially is going to be a shadow government.
~ Rush Limbaugh
There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a representative republic.
~ Rush Limbaugh