Quotes About Government

I served 14 years in the state legislature and served in both the minority and majority.

If you're a minority party that doesn't control any branch of government, you're more likely to be ignored.

I cannot be any clearer, minority governments don't work.

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere.

since 1886, the Bill of Rights has been explicitly applied to corporations. Perhaps most astoundingly, no branch of the U.S. government ever formally enacted corporate personhood "rights": • The public never voted on it. • It was never enacted into law by any legislature. • It was never even stated by a decision after arguments before the Supreme Court.

And those rights are not to be lightly infringed upon by government in any way. They're explicitly protected by the Constitution from the government. We are, after all, fragile living things that can be suppressed and abused by the powerful.

We no longer have a government of, by, and for the people—representative democracy. We have government by plutocracy—the rule of the rich for the rich by the rich," Moyers

The Constitution doesn't give us rights: it restrains government from infringing on rights we acquire at birth by virtue of being human beings, "natural rights" that are held by "natural persons." The Constitution holds back (restraining government) rather than gives forward (granting rights to people).

To be an artist in Austria means for most people being compliant to the state, whatever its political complexion, and letting oneself be supported by it for the term of one's natural life.

Socialism is socialism. Government run enterprises are just as inept under democratic governments as they are under autocratic governments.

The single-minded focus on scoring political points over solving problems, escalating over the last several decades, has reached a level of such intensity and bitterness that the government seems incapable of taking and sustaining public decisions responsive to the existential challenges facing the country.

In never-ending efforts to defeat incumbent officeholders in hard times, the public is perpetuating the source of its discontent, electing a new group of people who are even less inclined to or capable of crafting compromise or solutions to pressing problems.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

It is only with government help—in the form of subsidies, restrictions on potential rivals, and the like—that business can "exploit" the public in any meaningful sense.

It's a myth that "predatory pricing" exploited American consumers and created business monopolies. ? Thanks to government subsidies, many of America's railroads were often laid on inefficient, circuitous routes. ? Rockefeller, Carnegie, Dow, and other great American businessmen did more for America than all the big-government programs combined.

THE DECADE OF GREED? Ever since the New Deal, no successful American presidential candidate had run on an anti-government, pro-freedom platform; certainly none governed that way.

The main point that nullification addresses is that a government allowed to determine the scope of its own powers cannot remain limited for long.

No wonder historians loathe Harding and Coolidge; these presidents' success goes to show how much better off the country might be if ambitious politicians with their grandiose plans would just shut up and leave us alone.

In the late 1990s, when President Bill Clinton said he intended to "end welfare as we know it," he proposed an increase in the Job Corps budget. So a program that had been a total failure for three decades, with very little to show for the billions it had squandered, was to be rewarded with a bigger budget.

Big business learned that if you stopped fighting big government, you could profit from it by killing your smaller competitors.

No oppressive government can survive if it has to use force to get people to obey its commands. What government must do is get the people to buy in, to voluntarily support their own oppressors, or the system will collapse.

state says it is. It will provide services you do not want, will never use, and may even find morally repugnant, and then tell you what you must pay for them.

we should abolish the Fed altogether, since in the view of these economists it is entirely superfluous to a market economy.

The whole system is overseen by the government-created Federal Reserve System, which presides over a system-wide cartel.