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" I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. "

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" The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically. "

Lysander Spooner

" If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. "

" I hope to help the Indian government advance their economic reform agenda, which will benefit India's citizens and the world. "

" 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. "

" Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down. "

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

Milton Friedman

" 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. "

" Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students. "

Ferdinand Marcos

" Parents today are under a lot of stress, sometimes working two jobs just to make ends meet. They're trying to find day care for their kids and elder care for their own parents. The Federal Government shouldn't add to their worries by not living up to its obligations. "

Barbara Mikulski

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

" Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas. "

" American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas. "

" Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. "

" Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it. "

Richard M. Nixon

" In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment. "

" I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week. "

" We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government. "

" 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

" Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon. "

" History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. "

" The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. "

" The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise. "

" On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. "

" We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government. "

" Criticism is prejudice made plausible. "

" My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms. "

Nicos Anastasiades

" 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

" We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect. "

" Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. "