Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Oscar Wilde

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

Oscar Wilde

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

Lou Barletta

Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!

Michael Jackson

People are always saying: 'They'll take care of it. The government will. Don't worry, they will'. They who? It starts with us. It's us. Or else it'll never be done.

Michael Crichton

Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers, railwaymen, diplomats, and police, the public was now ready to see its faith restored in the basic soundness of banks, railroads, government, and police.

Mia Love

The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.

Jason Priestley

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.

Hill Harper

People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.

Hillary Clinton

One lesson I have learned the hard way, and there will not be any such thing in the White House. Although, I am quick to add, there's no evidence that it was ever hacked. And unfortunately, you can't say that for a lot of the government.

Hillary Clinton

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

Hillary Clinton

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

Hillary Clinton

The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it.

Herbert Hoover

Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts.

Herbert Hoover

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Herbert Hoover

All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.

Herbert Hoover

Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.

Herbert Hoover

Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.

Herbert Hoover

Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.

Herbert Hoover

We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.

Herbert Hoover

We have gold because we cannot trust governments

Evgeny Morozov

Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats.

Evgeny Morozov

I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.

Evgeny Morozov

WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.

Evgeny Morozov

North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others.

Evan Esar

Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.

Eugene Ionesco

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

Esther Dyson

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.