Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Ronald ReaganI was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
Harold McMillanEvery decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Henry L MenckenIt's inadequate in terms of its scope, it's inadequate in terms of its information technology, leadership, management systems and processes [on his governments immigration department]
John ReidBy our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
Samuel ChaseSo confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
Thomas JeffersonThe happiness of society is the end of government.
John AdamsHe mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
Grover ClevelandThis [Labour] government will never turn talk into action, it is time for a government that will.
Michael HowardGovernment'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, subsidise it.
Ronald ReaganAll share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it
James Russell LowellWe are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
William E GladstoneI know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
Ronald ReaganAnd it's absolutely hypocritical for the political party that talks about states rights, to suddenly ignore states rights, that say that the federal government or federalism has no business in this kind of business.
Gary AckermanThere is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal.
Jack KevorkianWe must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.
Warren HardingI think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. (31 August 1959)
Dwight EisenhowerThere's no trick to being a humourist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will RogersFellow-citizens: God reigns, and the Government at Washington lives!
James A GarfieldThe taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Ronald ReaganI've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.
Michael BloombergWarm words from David Cameron cannot wipe out the memories of 18 years of Tory government that left a legacy in our towns and cities of homelessness, repossessions and mass unemployment.
John PrescottHistory teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald ReaganThe Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.
Frank DobsonDemocracy is the most vile form of government... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
James MadisonGovernment 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Ayn RandI really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
Vaclav HavelThe process of renewal and reinvigoration that your premiership has inspired is without precedent. In each of our constituencies remarkable achievements have resulted directly from the policies of Labour governments since 1997
Mark TamiMen must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
Oliver Wendell Holmes JuniorA government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.
Ernie FletcherA monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government.
James F CooperI have been more constructively critical of this Government than my predecessors.
Digby JonesI am not going to oppose every cut the government comes up with
Ed MilibandTime and again these governments have rejected proposals today, and longed for them tomorrow
Abba EbanDemocracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Clement AttleeThe motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
Michael MooreA prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping
Ben JonsonI work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. (Letter to Duncan Grant)
John Maynard KeynesHistory proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
Vladimir PutinParts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.
Marty MeehanManufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
Ludwig MisesA free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd WrightUniversity printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.
Francis CornfordIt's a contradiction in terms, you can be open or you can have government.
John NettletonDuring the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines
Norm DicksA President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Harry S TrumanThe Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James MadisonGovernment of the busy by the bossy for the bully (Capitalism)
Arthur SeldonWe intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity to move forward to independence, democracy and equality.
Alex SalmondNo power of government ought to be employed in the endeavour to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
Jeremy Bentham
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