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" Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation. "

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" It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. "

Hubert H. Humphrey

" We cannot afford to balance the budget on the backs of America's middle class and seniors and must do what it takes to strengthen Social Security and Medicare, including enabling the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs. "

Raja Krishnamoorthi

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

Thomas Jefferson

" 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. "

" The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name. "

" Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. "

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

" To rule is easy, to govern difficult. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" We really need a public-interest government that is not taking marching orders from the fossil-fuel industry and the banks and the war profiteers. We really need a government that is acting on our behalf. "

" Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world. "

Michele Bachmann

" The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. "

" The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. "

" Democracy passes into despotism. "

" Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have. "

" What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended. "

" The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people. "

" As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I've become rather concerned about the hype we're hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower. "

" Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House. "

Louise Slaughter

" The Democrats have prevailed because, at heart, we have embodied a great idea, which is that an elected government can be the instrument of the common purpose of a free people; that government can embrace great causes and do great things. "

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

" 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. "

" It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free. "

Thomas Clarkson

" There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special. "

Valerie Jarrett

" You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it. "

" I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park. "

" The heavy hand of government and its rules are causing family businesses to shutter their doors. "

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

" 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

" To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates. "

Arnold Schwarzenegger

" Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. "

" A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Censorship is advertising paid by the government. "

Federico Fellini