Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Dimon

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

Jamie Dimon

If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage guarantee company which is done by the U.S. government, it should be guaranteed by the originators, i.e., the shareholder.

I am running for Governor of the great state of Ohio and welcome your support.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

The License Raj in India was a time when, to set up an industry, you needed a license. Which made the government an omnipresent and sort of all-pervasive authority.

Elizabeth Warren

It worries me about what happens if people in government are looking for that next job: 'Yeah I'm working now, not as much money as I could be making, but when I leave here, that's where I'm headed.' That ultimately infects whatever it is that they're doing.

Massoumeh Ebtekar is the highest-ranking woman in Iran's government, a symbol of President Mohammed Khatami's promise to promote women into high-profile positions.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Blaise Pascal

It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

Bill Hicks

What's gonna happen to the arms industry when we realize we're all One?...You can see why the government's cracking down.

Ludwig von Mises

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

Ludwig von Mises

If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely.

Ludwig von Mises

Welfare policies never attain those - allegedly beneficial - ends which the government and the self-styled progressives who advocated them wanted to attain, but - on the contrary - bring about a state of affairs which - from the very point of view of the government and its supporters - is even more unsatisfactory than the previous state of affairs they wanted to 'improve.'

Ludwig von Mises

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

Tom Wolfe

American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead.

Timothy Noah

A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.

Timothy Noah

What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for.

Thomas Friedman

We need a proper balance between government spending on nursing homes and nursery schools - on the last six months of life and the first six months of life.

Charles Olson

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

Dennis Prager

The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare state - you receive almost everything you need without having to earn any of it. About half of Americans now pay no federal income tax - but they receive all government benefits just as if they had paid for, i.e., earned them.

Dennis Prager

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

Dennis Prager

Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States

Dennis Prager

It is scary to live in the Obama era with its use of government to suppress dissent

Dennis Prager

The bigger the government, the less the citizens do for one another. If the state will take care of me and my neighbors, why should I? This is why Western Europeans, people who have lived in welfare states far longer than Americans have, give less to charity and volunteer less time to others than do Americans of the same socioeconomic status.

Dennis Prager

No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.

Dennis Prager

Is there a point of taxation wherein even a Democrat would acknowledge it is thievery by the government?

Dennis Prager

God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?

Dennis Prager

There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism-- because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives

Dennis Prager

The bigger the government, the greater the corruption

Dennis Hastert

The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.

Denis Hayes

We need a firm cap on carbon emissions from fossil fuels. No coal, oil, or gas could enter the economy until the buyer had a permit. All permits would be auctioned by the federal government, and the number of permits auctioned would be decreased by three percent per year. Permits could be traded, but they could not be created out of whole cloth by companies that plant forests or dump iron filings at sea.

Denis Diderot

The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors are invested with power to that end. And the greatest good of the people is liberty. It is to the state what health is to the individual.

Dee Dee Myers

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

Daniel Ellsberg

WikiLeaks serves as a back-up for those who want to tell the truth about the inner workings of government when the mainstream media is not willing or taking too long to publish.