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" But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people. "

Maynard James Keenan

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" A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. "

" In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over. "

" Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. "

John Perry Barlow

" From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country. "

" Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government. "

" I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females). "

Abraham Lincoln

" People like getting what they think is free stuff from government. "

" The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. "

" It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. "

" The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. "

" Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. "

" A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. "

" The U.S. needs legislation to protect the public's right to free speech and a free press, to protect it from the actions of the executive branch, and to promote the integrity and transparency of the U.S. government. "

Chelsea Manning

" Socialism means slavery. "

" The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity. "

" Who controls the issuance of money controls the government! "

Nathan Meyer Rothschild

" The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. "

" The government is promoting bad behavior. "

" Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. "

" There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people. "

" The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs. "

" Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people. "

Grover Cleveland

" No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'. "

" Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. "

" Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government. "

" It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. "

Alexander Hamilton

" The Patriot Act is ludicrous. Terrorists have proved that they are interested in total genocide, not subtle little hacks of the U.S. infrastructure, yet the government wants a blank search warrant to spy and snoop on everyone's communications. "

" Good government is one of the most important factors in economic growth and social well-being. "