Quotes about Government

“Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.”

“If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely.”

“I have long believed that the first duty of government is to protect the safety of our citizens.”

“Exporting oil would not drive up prices at the pump. American drivers buy refined products, which the U.S. already exports. Many studies - from a range of institutions and government agencies, including the Congressional Budget Office and the Energy Information Administration - have shown that lifting the export ban could actually lower gas prices.”

“We will get an absolute majority, I don't need anybody's help, the BSP will form the government on its own.”

“Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.”

“The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.”

“Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.”

“I like policy. It's why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government - you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that's important to me.”

“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”

“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

“If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.”

“Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.”

“The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy.”

“I always knew I'd be leaving government someday. I just didn't know when. There was something about knowing that it was temporary that left me in writerly observational mode.”

“The real cost of corruption in government, whether it is local, state, or federal, is a loss of the public trust.”

“Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.”

“Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.”

“The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.”

“You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.”

“How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.”