Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim DeMint

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

Jeremy Rifkin

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

Jenny McCarthy

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

Glenn Beck

The purpose of a just government is to prevent plunder, not facilitate it.

Glenn Beck

The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings.

Glenn Beck

Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.

Glenn Beck

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

Harry Seidler

The government only makes restrictive rules, they dont show you what to do so you know, OK, heres where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.

Hank Johnson

Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.

Frank Zappa

The ONLY thing that seems to band all nations together, is that their governments are universally bad....

Frank Zappa

Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.

Frank Herbert

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

Frank Herbert

Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.

Frank Herbert

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

Frank Herbert

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

Frank Herbert

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

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.