Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Fallon

The federal government is starting to plan for climate change by making extended forecasts that can help people plan for extreme weather - because what can go wrong when you combine the efficiency of government with the accuracy of weathermen?

John Conyers

If we quickly cast aside our constitutional form of government, then the enemy will not be the terrorists, it will be us.

Joel Miller

Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and instead toward jumping through hoops of lawyers and regulators, and prevent other operations from ever getting off the ground.

Joel Miller

Markets help people pursue their happiness more efficiently and effectively. Because they are so effective, markets provide benefits right here and right now, even while government is busy batching the protection of happiness.

Joel Miller

Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.

Joel Miller

The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.

Joel Miller

As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.

Joel Miller

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

Joel Miller

To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like.

Joel Miller

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

Joel Miller

The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public uses of private resources.

Joel Miller

Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.

Joel Salatin

When government gets between my lips and my stomach; I call that invasion of privacy!

Joel Salatin

Food security is not in the supermarket. It's not in the government. It's not at the emergency services division. True food security is the historical normalcy of packing it in during the abundant times, building that in-house larder, and resting easy knowing that our little ones are not dependent on next week's farmers' market or the electronic cashiers at the supermarket.

Linda Chavez

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

Lincoln Steffens

The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.

Lincoln Steffens

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

Leo Tolstoy

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

Leo Tolstoy

The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.

Leo Tolstoy

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

Lawrence Summers

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

Lawrence Lessig

In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.

Lawrence Lessig

When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

Lawrence Lessig

My claim is that we should focus on the values of liberty... If there is not government to insist on those values, then who? ... The single unifying force should be that we govern ourselves.

Lawrence Lessig

There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.

Lewis H. Lapham

Let the corporations do as they please -- pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets -- and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.

Lewis H. Lapham

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lewis Black

How our government works... it doesn't.

Joseph Story

A government, forever changing and changeable, is, indeed, in a state bordering upon anarchy and confusion.

Joseph Story

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Joseph Story

So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented; and the national sovereignty, as such, has no representation.

Joseph Story

In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter cannot exist without them.

Joseph Stiglitz

The fact that the government had to put up hundreds of billions of dollars to Citibank in guarantees was a public declaration that Citibank was a mess. Making Citibank go through financial restructuring would not have conveyed any more different information. So it's very hard to see why it would have had that kind of a panic if it were done well.