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" Every country has the government it deserves. "

Joseph de Maistre

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" This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances. "

Checks And Balances

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

" Government and other scientists have identified hundreds of chemicals that are linked to diseases in small concentrations and that are unregulated in drinking water or policed at limits that still pose serious risks. "

" Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them. "

" The Canary Islands offer special incentives to companies looking at potential filming locations, so it was only logical for me to help the local government make connections with major U.S. film studios like Universal, Fox, Sony, Disney, Paramount, Time Warner, 21st Century Fox, CBS, Viacom, Comcast, HBO, Netflix, Warner Brothers etc. "

" But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. "

Lysander Spooner

" In philanthropy, many of us give a little bit and each year we give more and more to see what actually works and not just throw money out there and see if it's going to work. If the government did the same thing, fabulous. "

John Paul DeJoria

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

" In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum. "

Joseph de Maistre

" Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists. "

Joseph de Maistre

" There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. "

Benjamin Franklin

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

John Perry Barlow

" I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government. "

" I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could. "

Kay Bailey Hutchison

" The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. "

William J. Brennan, Jr.

" 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

" I think there is a real misunderstanding about what the Tea Party movement is. The Tea Party movement is a sentiment in America that government is broken - both parties are to blame - and if we don't do something soon, this exceptional country will be lost, and it will become just like everybody else. "

" The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money. "

Margaret Thatcher

" I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. "

John Maynard Keynes

" We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. "

Wendell Phillips

" The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands. "

Bhumibol Adulyadej

" Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. "

" If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. "

Milton Friedman

" Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all. "

Charles B. Rangel

" You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well. "

" I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government. "

George W. Romney

" I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen. "

" All socialism involves slavery. "

Herbert Spencer

" I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government. "

" While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile. "

Madeleine Albright