Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rand Paul

I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

Rand Paul

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

Rand Paul

The other thing to realize is that almost all these shootings, including this shooting [in San-Bernardino], happened in a government building where people are not allowed to defend themselves. While it's not the ultimate answer, the ultimate answer would be no violence, part of the answer is saying, "We need to allow people to defend themselves."

Rand Paul

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

Rand Paul

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

Rand Paul

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

Rand Paul

The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.

Ralph Nader

Nothing short of a federal investigation can begin to disclose the abuses which have woven a fine web of mutually implicating relationships between businessmen and government officials.

Ralph Nader

The corporations have become our government. They're not just influential. Department by department, you name it, they put their people in high government positions, they have 10,000 PACs and 35,000 lobbyists, so there's no more opening to be heard.

There is a reason why you see such an antagonism to religion. Because communism necessitates the destruction of religion for one reason. Communism needs for government to be your God. So there cannot be any alliance to anything but government. So an alliance to God must be destroyed. That's why socialism and anti-religion go together.

Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

Sharron Angle

I knew that if we were going to actually defeat Harry Reid, we had to have a candidate who would offer a sharp policy contrast. Someone who would not just pay lip service to limited government principles, but had a solid record of voting that way time and again. I'm that candidate.

Sharron Angle

And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage

Sharron Angle

Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.

Sharron Angle

We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

Sharron Angle

The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenryThis is for usThis is for us when our government becomes tyrannical

Sean Connery

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

Michelle Malkin

History has shown us that 'Get Things Done' is mindless liberal code for passing ineffective legislation and expanding government for government's sake.

Michelle Malkin

There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits.

Michelle Malkin

When bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to 'increase' Internet 'access.'

Michelle Obama

There's no expert on this planet who says that the government telling people what to do actually does any good with this issue, this is going to require an effort on everyone's part.

Michael Pollan

The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat.

Michael Pollan

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

Seth Rogen

Americans whisper the word Alzheimer's because their government whispers the word Alzheimer's. And although a whisper is better than the silence that the Alzheimer's community has been facing for decades, it's still not enough. It needs to be yelled and screamed to the point that it finally gets the attention and the funding that it deserves and needs.

Raven-Symone

I can finally get married! Yay government! So proud of you

Tom DeLay

I am the Federal Government.

Tom DeLay

The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents.

Mercy Otis Warren

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

Michael Moore

All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

Michael Moore

Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address.

Michael Moore

If we say, 'The government sucks,' we're kind of saying that we suck.

John Quincy Adams

The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.