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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Barry Goldwater

If the government spends money in the regions of the UK it is called subsidy. But if it pours it down the gullet of the cities and counties in south-east England it is called essential support of the infrastructure.
John Forsyth

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
George Washington

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire

And 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 Ackerman

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
Larry Ellison

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Ronald Reagan

You have been an immense figure in the government over this past decade, fulfilling a number of crucial positions [in case this leaves you none the wiser, it was about John Reid!]
Tony Blair

That's almost enough to buy a government peerage
Peter Alliss

History 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 Putin

I condemn this completely irresponsible act by the government of the DPRK [on nuclear testing]
Tony Blair

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand

I'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 Bloomberg

We will create a civilisation of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
John Barlow

Yes is the answer to that question. I've enjoyed being in government... if it would be useful for me to serve I would like to do that. [saying he would like to work for Gordon Brown despite his previous opinions of him!]
Charles Clarke

It is not by consolidation, or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that good government is effected.
Thomas Jefferson

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Wendell Phillips

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.
Robert Nozick

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
Harold McMillan

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
John Gardner

I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
Ronald Reagan

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
James Madison

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
Barry Goldwater

Warm 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 Prescott

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter.
George Grenville

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
Stokely Carmichael

A group of Cuban Americans denounced the Castro government as a fascist regime that monitors and scrutinized its citizens' everyday existence. And then they excused themselves to go watch 'Big Brother'.
Bill Maher

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom
Steve Forbes

John Prescott has made the government look greedy and ridiculous. Labour is seen as the corrupt party. The government has been fulfilling the old rule that oppositions do not win elections, governments lose them.
Lord Rees-Mogg

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.
William Blackstone

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli

There's nothing our rulers [Labour government] enjoy more than banging up a decent, hard-working taxpayer, especially if they're suspected of voting Tory.
Richard Littlejohn

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
Grover Cleveland

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Good government is good politics.
Richard J Daley

The Germans, if this Government is returned, are going to pay every penny; they are going to be squeezed as a lemon is squeezed - until the pips squeak. (Speech at Cambridge, 10 Dec 1918)
Sir Eric Geddes

During 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 Dicks

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
Harold McMillan

A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.
Ernie Fletcher

Congress should recognise a government established under its auspices: there is no government in the rebel states, save the authority of Congress.
Henry Davis

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Donald Trump

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom Robbins

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago
John Adams

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfil its obligations.
Martin Gross

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Tocqueville

Government of the busy by the bossy for the bully (Capitalism)
Arthur Seldon



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