Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Napolitano

The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in.

Andrew Napolitano

Why are liberals who want the government to regulate their health care upset that the government wants to regulate their internet?

Amy Poehler

The federal government began investigating allegations of fraud against the Coalition Provisional Authority, a U.S. contractor accused in a bid-rigging operation involving millions of dollars. Asked to comment, a spokesperson for Halliburton said, 'Millions? With an M? That is adorable.'

Ally Carter

Maggie threw her head back and laughed. 'So you're going to try...what? Birds of a Feather?' she quested. 'Of course not,' Kat said. 'Everyone knows the French government banned the importation of peacocks in 1987.

Allan Sherman

A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.

Ann Coulter

For decades now, the Democrats have had a good gig buying the votes of government workers with outrageous salaries, benefits and work rules - and then sticking productive earners with the bill. But, now, we're out of money.

Ann Coulter

Almost everything wrong with our health care system comes from government interference with the free market. If the health care system is broken, then fix it. Don't try to invent a new one premised on all the bad ideas that are causing problems in the first place.

Ann Coulter

Whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is behind it.

Ann Coulter

Democrats don't resent the rich on behalf of the poor. They resent the rich on behalf of the government.

Ann Coulter

There's never a recession if you work for the government.

Ann Coulter

Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words 'abortion' or 'tax hikes' pass their lips.

Ann Coulter

At every other workplace in the nation - even Mal-Mart! - workers are being laid off. But no one at any of the bloated government bureaucracies ever need fear receiving a pink slip. All 64,750 employees at the department of Health and Human Services are apparently absolutely crucial to the smooth functioning of the department.

Andy Borowitz

Next time someone says, 'Where has big government ever gotten us?' the correct answer is 'Mars.'

Katherine Harris

We have to have the faithful in government.

John Battelle

Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.

Theresa May

There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums.

At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.

Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in general, they recognize that government must play an important role for a society to operate.

Glenn Greenwald

I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington. It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States.

This nation's health-care problems are, in no small part, about Wal-Mart. Should governors take up Scott's offer for him to visit their states, we are sure he will hear just that.

Those are all signs the government is taking the matter very seriously and that will have an impact on growth.

Anderson Cooper

To me, those are the heroes of the story. It was government that failed. It was people who stood up.

Alan Rickman

The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy?

Andy Stern

Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.

Arlo Guthrie

I thought I would be governor of Massachusetts. I stood on a pile of my old albums and said, 'I'm the only one with a record to stand on.'

There are arguments for a public safety risk, but it's not that severe at this point. Right now the government is being overbearing.

There is a vociferous group from within the government that are saying it is better to go to war.

John Podesta

wants us to be ready to govern on day one, and so he pledged to work with us.

Otto von Bismarck

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Deval Patrick

We need a government that is what we are at our best. Smart, efficient, pragmatic and compassionate.

Mario Cuomo

You have these people who don't like the government they're supposed to be running,

Hooman Majd

Inside Iran, people are actually quite well-educated about America. There are things they don't understand, particularly in the government, but the people, by and large, know the American sensibility quite well, and the reverse is not true.

The government should spend more time on promoting tourism in Sydney.