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" Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. "
Milton Friedman
Want
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" The government can't create jobs; they'll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn't have any money; all they have is a printing press. We need to free markets to create jobs; if the government wants to help, they should reduce their burden on the economy. "
Peter Schiff
Money
Free
Government
" There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do. "
Bill Bryson
Time
Alcohol
America
" Change is not in the hands of government, not in the hands of a leader or guru, and not in the hands of the powerful or wealthy. It is in our hands: the hands of each and every one of us. "
Shari Arison
Change
Us
Powerful
" Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Against
Guns
Government
" If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Government
Risks
Space
" The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land. "
John Marshall
Action
Law
Government
" The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment. "
Bill Gates
Responsibility
Support
Bear
" For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries. "
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Leadership
Mission
Success
" In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes,' is committed to ending the colonialism, racism and exclusion that many of our people lived under for many centuries. "
Evo Morales
People
Government
Ending
" While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary. "
Steve Largent
Involvement
Government
Free
" Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. "
Jeremy Bentham
Government
Conspiracy
System
" There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained. "
Ron Paul
Constitution
Enemy
Liberty
" Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. "
Milton Friedman
Good
Good Intentions
Power
" The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government. "
John McCain
People
Crisis
Government
" In philanthropy, many of us give a little bit and each year we give more and more to see what actually works and not just throw money out there and see if it's going to work. If the government did the same thing, fabulous. "
John Paul DeJoria
See
Money
Government
" 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. "
George Takei
Here
Internment
American
" I don't believe newspaper reporters can substitute for a district attorney, but a newspaper has a very valid investigative role. Newspaper reports on corruption in government, racketeering and organized crime conditions can be very helpful to your communities and the whole country. "
Robert Kennedy
Corruption
Believe
Crime
" I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the federal Constitution to have a big federal criminal justice system. "
Paul Broun
Constitution
Justice
Think
" Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them. "
Marco Rubio
Government
Our
Rights
" Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more. "
Thomas Sowell
Always
Government
More
" In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the government called for an Internet 'unfettered by Federal or State regulation.' The result of that fateful decision was the greatest free-market success story in history. "
Ajit Pai
Government
Success
History
" The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State. "
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Life
Duty
Law
" 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
People
Roads
Work
" No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards. "
Donella Meadows
Goals
Government
Performance
" But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people. "
Maynard James Keenan
Government
Us
People
" 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. "
Eisaku Sato
Security
Question
Government
" 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. "
Lloyd Bentsen
Community
Government
Learning
" Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. "
Ronald Reagan
Them
Does
Government
" There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. "
Will Rogers
You
Working
Trick
" The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. "
Andrew Jackson
Sovereign
Power
People