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" I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could. "

Kay Bailey Hutchison

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" What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. January 20th 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. Everyone is listening to you now. "

" Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" We, as citizens, are the true owners of government. "

" Who controls the issuance of money controls the government! "

Nathan Meyer Rothschild

" The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. "

" The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion. "

John Paul Stevens

" The roof cannot collapse when the value pillars of government and society are sound and strong. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. "

" A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. "

" I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. "

Thomas Jefferson

" For almost two centuries, American gray wolves, vilified in fact as well as fiction, were the victims of vicious government extermination programs. By the time the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, only a few hundred of these once-great predators were left in the lower 48 states. "

" I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us. "

" When private sector, government, social, and philanthropic leaders apply innovative partnerships and technologies to address social challenges and build sustainable communities, the impact is multiplied. "

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

" The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a 'money illusion' among workers, i.e., on the belief that while, through unions and government, they will keep money wage rates from falling, they will also accept a fall in real wage rates via higher prices. "

Murray Rothbard

" Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them. "

" We, as Indian tribes, should be able to prosecute non-Indians on tribal lands. But on Indian land, we have no ability to prosecute anyone but another Indian. American Indians having status as a foreign nation is good for us, but it's not good in some ways if we don't have the jurisdictional power that the federal government claims. "

" I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally. "

Kay Bailey Hutchison

" 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

" We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us. "

" Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. "

George Bernard Shaw

" 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

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

" Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it. "

" Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You put up the streamers, and you hire the DJ, and you get the punch bowl.' Some people are just like, 'This dance sucks.' And you're like, 'No no, this dance is awesome!' You have to be really positive. "

" As families and small businesses alike are tightening their belts to account for the worsening economy, they have every right to ask: 'Why isn't my government doing the same?' "

" Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong. "

" But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government. "

James Q. Wilson

Federal Government

" The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other. "

" Democracy passes into despotism. "