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" Censorship is advertising paid by the government. "

Federico Fellini

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" Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people. "

" The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma. "

" There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. "

" The essence of good government is trust. "

Kathleen Sebelius

" I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the federal Constitution to have a big federal criminal justice system. "

" This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty. "

" Democracy is an abuse of statistics. "

Jorge Luis Borges

" As an American, I repudiate Russia's or any other foreign government's attempt to interfere or meddle in our democratic process, and I would call on all Americans to do the same. "

Michael D. Cohen

" I think governments can't do much. "

" It is not good to have a rule of many. "

" The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. "

Thomas Jefferson

" If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted. "

Abraham Lincoln

" 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. "

Norman Ornstein

" Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India. "

" The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion. "

John Paul Stevens

" We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is wealth, with its corrupting, demoralizing influences. Let us never have a Government at Washington owing its retention to the power of the millionaires rather than to the will of millions. "

Joseph Pulitzer

" The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics. "

" The Barrow Administration, with its misguided philosophy of big government wanting to own or control every facet of economic activity in Belize, has depressed and squeezed out the private sector. The inevitable result is mass firing of workers, foreclosures, and downsizing. "

" The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. "

" 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. "

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

Grover Cleveland

" A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government. "

" I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.' "

" Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. "

" Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. "

" Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. "

" It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. "

John W. Gardner

" It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. "

" Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution. "

" If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government. "

Barry Goldwater