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" Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people. "

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" He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. "

" Government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people; it wasn't intended to be all things to all people. "

" For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. "

" The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. "

" Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. "

" We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character. "

" Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. "

Frederic Bastiat

" I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?' "

" It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. "

" The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. "

Martin Van Buren

" The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make terms of peace, and to establish relations of amity between the two sections. "

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

" I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. "

" I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth. "

" The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that it could produce even wilder chain reactions and even bigger explosions. In fact, fearing another country would create it, too, the American government went to great lengths to keep even the existence of plutonium a secret. "

" In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over. "

" National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government. "

" The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people. "

Milton Friedman

" The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly. "

Alexander Hamilton

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

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

" Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make. "

" Our government and its social policies, its tax breaks, the way school days work, so much of the country we live in is built for married couples with a male breadwinner and a female domestic laborer. Government needs to be massively altered in order to serve this population. "

Rebecca Traister

" You can see my guns at my apartment. The safe room is a special place... It's good to have a safe room in your house. It's storm-proof; we've got food, store supplies, all kinds of stuff. "

" As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. "

" To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up. "

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

" Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes. "

George Papandreou

" The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government. "

" The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. "