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" Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them. "

Elizabeth Warren

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" National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties. "

" Tonight, I want to say to every member of the democratic party, who believes in limited government, in personal opportunity and the united States constitution, and a safe and secure America, come home. To the Reagan Democrats, your party has left you. And the Republican party wants you, we welcome you back. "

" I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come. "

" No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. "

Thomas Jefferson

" The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am what I am. I'll go out and talk to people about what's happening to their families, and when I do that, I'm a mother. I'm a grandmother. "

Elizabeth Warren

" The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security. "

" Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine. "

" I am almost inclined to say that India will get Dominion Responsible Government the day the Hindus and Muslims are united. "

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

" I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage. "

Elizabeth Warren

" It worries me about what happens if people in government are looking for that next job: 'Yeah I'm working now, not as much money as I could be making, but when I leave here, that's where I'm headed.' That ultimately infects whatever it is that they're doing. "

Elizabeth Warren

" 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. "

" Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better. "

" The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. "

Anthony Kennedy

First Amendment

" Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society. "

" I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. "

Alexander Woollcott

" The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. "

Herbert Spencer

" Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations, bailouts, loan guarantees, targeted tax breaks and no-bid contracts. "

" If taxes and government spending are both slashed, then the salutary result will be to lower the parasitic burden of government taxes and spending upon the productive activities of the private sector. "

Murray Rothbard

" G.E. doesn't pay any taxes, and we are asking college kids to take on even more debt to get an education and asking seniors to get by on less. These aren't just economic questions. These are moral questions. "

Elizabeth Warren

" We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back. "

Melina Mercouri

" This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. "

Elizabeth Warren

" Since its inception, the government has broken and coerced treaties with hundreds of Native American tribes. And this is even worse when you realize that the native peoples of this land are negotiating for land that is, by all common sense and elementary school logic, their land. "

" All socialism involves slavery. "

Herbert Spencer

" In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference. "

" Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government. "

" Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking. "

Elizabeth Warren

" If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters. "

" Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be - all need at least four years of college. "