940 private quotes tagged government

“The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.” — Thomas Sowell

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“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.” — Milton Friedman

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“I've always been about less government.” — Kelly Clarkson

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“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.” — Maynard James Keenan

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“There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.” — Ron Paul

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“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.” — John Quincy Adams

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“I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.” — Clint Eastwood

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“Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.” — Ron Paul

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“I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.” — Doris Lessing

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“I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.” — Ron Paul

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“Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.” — Alexander Hamilton

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“Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.” — Thomas Sowell

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“My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.” — Grover Norquist

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“Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.” — George W. Bush

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“I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.” — Andrew Cuomo

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“I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.” — Ron Paul

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“In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.” — Milton Friedman

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“If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.” — Noam Chomsky

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

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“If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.” — Barry Goldwater

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“I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?” — Andy Rooney

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“Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.” — Alexander Hamilton

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“We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.” — Andrew Jackson

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“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.” — Lysander Spooner

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