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" A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens. "

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" I think that most people who complain about our government have no idea what they're talking about because they've never been to a country with a bad government. "

Whitney Tilson

Think

People

Government

" I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network. "

" Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have. "

P. J. O'Rourke

People

Seat

" You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance. "

" A lot of people don't understand what feminism is. They think it is about advance and success for women, but it's not that at all. It is about power for the female left. And they have this, I think, ridiculous idea that American women are oppressed by the patriarchy and we need laws and government to solve our problems for us. "

" Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. "

" I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or 'chosen' or feel they have an entitlement... be it through monarchy, government or money. I think we are all born the same. We are entitled to an equal shot at life. "

" The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. "

" We can only imagine what would happen to our health care and to the quality of our health care here in North Dakota if we took the federal government out of health care. "

" As families and small businesses alike are tightening their belts to account for the worsening economy, they have every right to ask: 'Why isn't my government doing the same?' "

" People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests. "

" Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. "

" Government is inevitably going to play a very significant role in infrastructure, and in a country with a federal system where vibrancy and economic health depend on interstate commerce, it's not going to be private enterprise or state governments that will give you things like an interstate highway system. "

" Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country. "

Edward Abbey

Country

Poor

" Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls. "

" It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years. "

" That government is best which governs least. "

" Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. "

" The heavy hand of government and its rules are causing family businesses to shutter their doors. "

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Government

Rules

Hand

" I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. "

William F. Buckley, Jr.

University

Boston

Government

" Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations. "

" Individual people shouldn't be fearful, because by and large our government, the federal government - people always talk; obviously, they don't trust the feds, whatever. The federal government and local communities have done a pretty good job at keeping us safe. "

" The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make terms of peace, and to establish relations of amity between the two sections. "

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

Act

Peace

Two

" Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. "

" All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. "

" Socialism means slavery. "

" If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law. "

" Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. "

" The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. "

" If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement. "