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" Government should take care of those in America who can't care for themselves. That's a role of government. "

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" When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you are there to serve. It teaches you to listen; it teaches you to be expansive in the people with whom you talk to, and I think that that engagement gives you political judgment. "

Valerie Jarrett

" I used to write books and plays in my mind, but I doubt that any of them would have been above the level of the cheapest dime novel. "

" The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act. "

" We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online. "

" In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality. "

" But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. "

" The United States expects a lot of its partners and allies, including joint patrolling, significant contributions to armed conflicts, and a strict adherence to human rights, among other things. "

" We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees. "

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

" Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances. "

" I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more. "

" You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance. "

" 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

" I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated. "

" The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad. "

" I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA. "

" I think that Fox News is a bit schizophrenic. "

" Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money. "

Benjamin Franklin

" So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel! "

" You don't pay taxes - they take taxes. "

" I can recall back in 1998, in August of that year, when we had a horrible disaster along the Mexican border in the town of Del Rio. At the time, FEMA was the shining star of the federal government. It's now perceived as many to be the dullest knife in the drawer. Right or wrong, that's the perception. "

" By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority. "

" You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there. "

" I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying. "

" The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. "

Thomas Jefferson

" We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. "

Henry A. Wallace

" The world is not going to be saved by legislation. "

William Howard Taft

" A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people. "

" The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don't. It's a society where relationships are built on love. "

" I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from. "