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" Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. "

Milton Friedman

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" People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income. "

" If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement. "

Robert Kiyosaki

" Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending. "

" Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. "

Sydney J. Harris

" I think governments can't do much. "

" You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there. "

" Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in general, they recognize that government must play an important role for a society to operate. "

Norman Ornstein

" Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. "

" It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people. "

" A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character. "

Lysander Spooner

" When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies. "

" You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one. "

" The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. "

Thomas Jefferson

" The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs. "

" I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage. "

Jose Antonio Vargas

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

" 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

" Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. "

William Lyon Mackenzie King

" Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation. "

" The Canary Islands offer special incentives to companies looking at potential filming locations, so it was only logical for me to help the local government make connections with major U.S. film studios like Universal, Fox, Sony, Disney, Paramount, Time Warner, 21st Century Fox, CBS, Viacom, Comcast, HBO, Netflix, Warner Brothers etc. "

" The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. "

" You don't pay taxes - they take taxes. "

" We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger. "

Toussaint Louverture

" The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world. "

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

" A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient. "

" While there's always plenty of room for improvement, our government is actually quite effective and efficient. Our military and judicial systems and national parks are the best in the world. Unlike in countries where government corruption is rampant, I've never once been solicited for a bribe. "

" The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

" 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. "

" Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. "