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" It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. "

John W. Gardner

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" We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again. "

" As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. "

" I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or 'chosen' or feel they have an entitlement... be it through monarchy, government or money. I think we are all born the same. We are entitled to an equal shot at life. "

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" The government is us; we are the government, you and I. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic. "

" But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem. "

" The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget. "

" The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse. "

" Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. "

" Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. "

" I'm a conservative who likes small government and lower taxes. "

" Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios. "

" The Barrow Administration, with its misguided philosophy of big government wanting to own or control every facet of economic activity in Belize, has depressed and squeezed out the private sector. The inevitable result is mass firing of workers, foreclosures, and downsizing. "

" I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections. "

" 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. "

" Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. "

" For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. "

" What we can do in Singapore may not be doable elsewhere. Some things you know you need: you want efficient government, you want clean government, you want to do away with corruption, you must educate your people. You want to get housing and so on. All these are not such secrets, not so special to Singapore. "

Lee Hsien Loong

" From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country. "

" I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park. "

" 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

" We need to change attitudes. We can only change attitudes by working together. Government will do its bit, but I want you all to do your bit, too. So speak out, stand up against violence against women and girls, and that's the way we can eradicate it. "

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" The economical policies that are instigated really makes you think that the American government is a bunch of evil bastards. So just because you're black, you're still representing that government, and when Obama came into office he enacted the same policies that we would critique other presidents for. "

" But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. "

Lysander Spooner

" Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. "

" I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government. "

" 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