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

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" By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. "

" Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government. "

Alexander Hamilton

" The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

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

" The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. "

" Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. "

" Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. "

Milton Friedman

" I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it. "

" I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. "

" Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government. "

" Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls. "

" One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected? "

" The United States of America was originally an experiment. But it was an experiment in recognizing God-given individual liberty and creating a government in which we no one is deemed better than another. And in which all of us are equal. Not equal in abilities, but equal in intrinsic worth and value. "

" The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. "

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

" The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread. "

" The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. "

" We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again. "

" 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. "

" Republican liberty depends on citizen participation, on a government that is of, for, and by the people. "

" If the Democrats want to insult women by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it. "

" 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. "

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

Maynard James Keenan

" Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn't the depth of love and caring among our people, this would not have happened. "

Patrice Motsepe

" Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. "

Thomas Jefferson

" No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards. "

Donella Meadows

" The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a 'money illusion' among workers, i.e., on the belief that while, through unions and government, they will keep money wage rates from falling, they will also accept a fall in real wage rates via higher prices. "

Murray Rothbard

" 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

" There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. "

" Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. "