Quotes About Government

If you ask any CPA, he or she will tell you that there is very little they can do for you in the E quadrant. The government has locked up most of the loopholes for this quadrant.

Business people, on the other hand, are rewarded for having excess money and are applauded for their efficiency. As this cycle of growing government spending continued, the demand for money increased, and the "tax-the-rich" idea was adjusted to include lower-income levels, down to the very people who voted it in, the poor and the middle class.

The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich. It's self-inflicted fear and ignorance that keep people trapped.

At best, the line between historical fact and govrnmental fiction is cloudy; in cases of treason it tends to vanish entirely.

Why is our life so cruel and dark That men no longer speak to friend? Why does evil so clearly mark The monstrous government of men? Compare what is with what is past And see how fraud and sorrow stand, While law and justice fade so fast That I know no longer where I am.

The State has a superfluity of testicles, Peersa said with no particular emphasis.

Those who will give up essential liberty to secure a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

It was deeply ironic that when McCarthy's self-serving campaign against the Red Menace was at its height, Soviet penetration of the American government was at its lowest ebb for almost thirty years.

I declare to goodness, I don't know but sometimes I believe in women's rights. If women were voting and making laws, I believe they'd have better sense. (Mrs. McKee to Laura, regarding homesteading laws)

It was after 2:00 A.M. before we got back to the graveyard. The Feds had kept us forever, like they didn't believe we were telling them the whole truth. Fancy that. I hated being accused of concealing evidence when I wasn't. Made me want to lie to them just so they wouldn't be disappointed.

No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.

This had been a bad section of town before the Circus moved in and brought in money, which attracted other businesses. The area had been gentrified not because of some government interference, but by good old-fashioned capitalism, which was one of Jean-Claude's favorite things.

A nanny state is hostile to liberty. Any attempt to institute or continue it should be opposed, root and branch. Government intervention is never the solution; it is always part of the problem.

OUR FREEDOM DEPENDS ON THE EXERTIONS OF A FEW PATRIOTIC INDIVIDUALS. IT IS WITH GRIEF THAT WE LEARN THAT THE CONGRESS IS MADE UP OF SO FEW OF THEM. —DIARY OF CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL, PHILADELPHIA PHARMACIST

A British Cabinet Minister finds that To lie in the nude Is not at all rude But to lie in the House is obscene and a government is rocked

It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore.

It's a sad day in America when foreign governments with deep pockets have more influence in our own country than our great citizens.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Government" Like a mafia protection racket-without the protection.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.

I was a Political Science major.

Politics is not a science...but an art.

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.