Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Robeson

This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.

Patrick McHenry

Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.

Lester Maddox

Why would we have different races if God meant us to be alike and associate with each other?

Leopoldo Lopez

The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution.

Leon Panetta

Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head.

Leon Panetta

Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.

Laurence J. Peter

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

Larry Sabato

The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.

Lajos Kossuth

I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

L. Neil Smith

I have long argued that we need to reopen Alcatraz to house government criminals, and let tourists on excursion boats in San Francisco Bay pay to chum the water with meat with an expired sell-by date that would otherwise have to be discarded.

L. Neil Smith

Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.

L. Neil Smith

I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

L. Neil Smith

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

L. Neil Smith

The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists - or ever existed, or ever will exist - is a kleptocracy, meaning "rule by thieves." Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce.

P. J. O'Rourke

If we're free to do what we want, why does government always have a plan for us?

P. J. O'Rourke

Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of.

P. J. O'Rourke

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

P. J. O'Rourke

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

P. J. O'Rourke

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

P. J. O'Rourke

Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.

P. J. O'Rourke

There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable...in large part, because so many of them can be leveled against the federal government of the United States.

P. J. O'Rourke

The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

P. J. O'Rourke

You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

P. J. O'Rourke

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

P. J. O'Rourke

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.

Patricia Schroeder

The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that

Governor Romney commends the members of the House who recognize, as we all do, that it is wrong to reward illegal immigration.

Brad Davis

Governor Haynes had a witch executed, and he's hanging there.

Governor Bush, you have the power to save my daughter. Please, please do something.

Phil Angelides

Governor after governor after governor has done it, and he needs to do it. There's no other option, ... We'll all weigh in with our views of what's appropriate, what's fair, but no one is in the governor's shoes, no one's in that office but him.

Government shouldn't be setting the prevailing wage; the market ought to be setting it.

Government should concentrate on building up infrastructure and skill development. Simplification of taxation is another important area.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government run by organized money is the same as government run by the organized mob