Quotes About Government

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

The legitimacy of the government depends on the continuous exercise of an act of forgetting.

When the Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812, the British, in time-honoured fashion, abandoned their allies. Who were subsequently wiped out by the Americans along with any other tribes that happened to be in the same general vicinity – even those that had actually been allied with the US government during the war. It's exactly this sort of thing, of course, which gives colonialism a bad name.

when the government decided that in the light of an increased security threat what London really needed was a smaller police force.

So etwas wie ein ständiges Spurensicherungsteam gibt es übrigens nicht. da die Spurensicherung so teuer ist, bestellt man sie beim Innenministerium immer nur häppchenweise wie beim chinesischen Lieferservice. Aus der prozession von Plastikanzügen zu schließen, die an uns vorüberzog, hatte Stephanopoulos sich das Super-Deluxe-Menü für sechs Personen mit einer extraportion Reis gegönnt. Und ich war dann wohl der Glückskeks.

Red tape has killed more people than bullets...

Whenever a religious movement has gained the reins of governmental power, individual liberties are strangled.

The conservatives running the government have always been against the exploration of Mars. What we've found goes against their religious beliefs.

Any society that would give up essential liberty to obtain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." Ben Franklin

In a perfect world the current laws would not apply.

Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.

Politicians will have to do the heavy lifting here, because for the most part these are not issues that can be addressed by the Fed or monetary policy.)

That's why I often said that monetary policy was not a panacea—we needed Congress to do its part. After

had helped make the Depression as terrible as it was.

the new administration was leaning toward moving consumer protection duties outside the Fed

the new president will push for action on many fronts.

Congress opted for budget cuts and tax increases.

In retrospect I wonder whether I should have insisted earlier and more vigorously on persuading Congress to accept capital injections.

The Treasury helped us solve this dilemma to some extent, by raising money in debt markets

Greenspan did not put a high priority on consumer protection.

Philosophically, I did not view myself as either strongly pro- or anti-regulation.

But it's hard to avoid the conclusion that today we need more cooperation and less confrontation in Washington.