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

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" I don't take lightly ever putting the taxpayer on the line to support an institution. "

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

John Paul Stevens

" The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security. "

" Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense. "

" I think the Chinese are wise. After all, they know the U.S. is in a very different league than Russia. The U.S. is the major power in the world, and the US-China relationship... is very important to global stability, to sustain global economic growth. "

" No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. "

Thomas Jefferson

" The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not? "

" It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. "

" I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government. "

" War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. "

" The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. "

" It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance. "

" Certainly in North Korea, man is always superior to woman. Even the government treats women horribly. What is the slogan? Woman is a flower. "

" And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. "

" The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse! "

" Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. "

John Perry Barlow

" When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. "

Robert A. Heinlein

" Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me. "

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

" Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. "

Abraham Lincoln

" No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor. "

Benjamin Harrison

" This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave. "

" We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. "

Abraham Lincoln

" China has a more assertive, proactive foreign policy as its interests are growing around the world. "

" I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government. "

" If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. "

Henry David Thoreau

" It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years. "

" I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government. "

" I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services. "

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

Martin Van Buren