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

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" It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you. "

" Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders. "

" The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism. "

" Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. "

" History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. "

" My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. "

Grover Norquist

" The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision. "

" My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims. "

" All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. "

" The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. "

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

" A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient. "

" I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people. "

" Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information. "

" The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection. "

" The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations. "

" A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years. "

" Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism. "

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" Truth is the glue that holds government together. "

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" Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong. "

" I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage. "

Jose Antonio Vargas

" The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents. "

" I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. "

Abraham Lincoln

" The art of government is the organisation of idolatry. "

George Bernard Shaw

" As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States. "

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Barry Goldwater

" We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country. "