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" Many of our advances in science and technology were seeded through government. "

Valerie Jarrett

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" 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

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

Richard M. Nixon

" The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people. "

" Voters did say 'repeal health care', they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.' "

" I think in the end the big issue is that the private sector still needs more help. And the answer is not more big government. I know in my state our reforms allowed us to protect firefighters, police officers, and teachers. "

" The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public. "

" It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free. "

Thomas Clarkson

" Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world. "

Michele Bachmann

" Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them. "

" I think that most people who complain about our government have no idea what they're talking about because they've never been to a country with a bad government. "

" In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. "

" Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government. "

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

" Now judicial review, beloved by conservatives, can, of course, fulfill the excellent function of declaring government interventions and tyrannies unconstitutional. But it can also validate and legitimize the government in the eyes of the people by declaring these actions valid and constitutional. "

Murray Rothbard

" The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians. "

" Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. "

" I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government. "

Oliver Cromwell

" I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world. "

" We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it. "

George Farquhar

" 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. "

" The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations. "

" To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote. "

" I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government. "

William H. Wharton

" I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. "

" The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise. "

" As a Cherokee, I can attest to the fact that Native Americans have been on the losing side of history. Our rights have been infringed upon, our treaties have been broken, our culture has been stolen, and our tribes have been decimated at the hands of our own United States government. "

Markwayne Mullin

" 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. "

" Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. "

William Lyon Mackenzie King

" No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands. "

Bhumibol Adulyadej