Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Hastert

The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.

Denis Hayes

We need a firm cap on carbon emissions from fossil fuels. No coal, oil, or gas could enter the economy until the buyer had a permit. All permits would be auctioned by the federal government, and the number of permits auctioned would be decreased by three percent per year. Permits could be traded, but they could not be created out of whole cloth by companies that plant forests or dump iron filings at sea.

Denis Diderot

The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors are invested with power to that end. And the greatest good of the people is liberty. It is to the state what health is to the individual.

William Shakespeare

I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.

There is no local government infrastructure, no law enforcement or judicial authorities in Somalia,

Until the government is strong enough, there will always be a resurgence in spring,

Muqtada al Sadr

Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people.

Paul Singer

While many of Mr. Obama's ideas warrant skepticism, conservative opposition to any expanded role for government is a mistake.

Henry Hazlitt

There are millions receiving government payments who have come to consider them as an earned right, who of course find them inadequate, and who are outraged at the slightest suggestion of a critical re-examination of the subject. The political pressure for constant extension and increase of these benefits is almost irresistible.

Kathleen Wynne

I have no intention of disowning my record as a member of the McGuinty government.

What this is all about is government willing to not protect the health and welfare of their own citizens.

What happens to these securities it's up to the investors, not any government agency.

Bob Filner

Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.

We are all working together in this, we would rather see the government put more money in development and research to help.

Chauncey Depew

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

Che Guevara

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

Charlton Heston

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

Charlie Pierce

We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.

Charley Reese

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

Charley Reese

Washington, of course, aside from being one of the most mismanaged, crime-ridden cities on the planet, is a place where 535 federal legislators and about 38,000 lobbyists work at confiscating and redistributing the incomes of the American people.

Charley Reese

Make sure the government treats others the same as you would want the government to treat you. ...Once you consent to the government ignoring the Constitution, you deny yourself the protection of the Constitution.

Charley Reese

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.

Charley Reese

The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these days is clearly unconstitutional. The original idea, as expressed by James Madison, was that states would do 95 percent of the governing. Today, they are little more than administrative subdivisions of the central empire.

Charley Reese

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

Charles Koch

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers. This growing partnership between business and government is a destructive force, undermining not just our economy and our political system, but the very foundations of culture.

Charles Koch

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

Charles Koch

The government is largely influenced by people who advocate corporate welfare and advocate these policies that create this two-tiered society.

Charles Koch

Most companies want free enterprise in general because that produces better goods and services and makes people's lives better, but they don't want it in their business. They want protection from competition, they want subsidies, they want the government to pick winners and losers, and they want to be picked as winners, and that's what we're opposing, and that's what drives my whole efforts in policy, and in the political arena.

Charles Koch

The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

Charles Koch

We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.

Charles Koch

There are now businesses and entire industries that exist solely as a result of federal patronage. Profiting from government instead of earning profits in the economy, such businesses can continue to succeed even if they are squandering resources and making products that people wouldn't ordinarily buy.

Charles Lindbergh

When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized.

Charles Lindbergh

The remedy for our social evils does not consist so much in changing the system of government as it does in increasing the general intelligence of the people so that they may learn how to govern.