Government Quotes

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

We do participate in the government programs, like probably 95 percent of farmers do. People who aren't familiar with the agriculture industry, you know, try and make that look like something exceptional.

Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.

As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

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

Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.

What is good for Alaska is good for the country. Transferring power from the federal government to the states provides opportunity to all states, not just Alaska.

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is the federal government.

The Chief Whip's job is trying to make sure that the Government - and MPs elected as part of the governing party - deliver the promises that they were elected on. That's a healthy part of the democratic process.

No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice.

But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem.

Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt.

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.

The government itself cannot create jobs. Jobs are created by business people and entrepreneurs.

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens.