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" One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it. "

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" Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub. "

Grover Norquist

" The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of Government. "

Jefferson Davis

" Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn't the depth of love and caring among our people, this would not have happened. "

Patrice Motsepe

" The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. "

" Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? "

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

" Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down. "

" Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. "

" Our government is deeply disordered; its credit is impaired; its debt increasing; its expenditures extravagant and wasteful; its disbursements without efficient accountability; and its taxes (for duties are but taxes) enormous, unequal, and oppressive to the great producing classes of the country. "

John C. Calhoun

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

" If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history. "

" American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead. "

" Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls. "

" This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances. "

Checks And Balances

" We really need a public-interest government that is not taking marching orders from the fossil-fuel industry and the banks and the war profiteers. We really need a government that is acting on our behalf. "

" He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. "

" 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. "

" Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. "

" I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers. "

Michael Bloomberg

" 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. "

" We can only imagine what would happen to our health care and to the quality of our health care here in North Dakota if we took the federal government out of health care. "

" The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. "

" How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. "

Henry David Thoreau

" 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. "

" Because tax cuts create an incentive to increase output, employment, and production, they also help balance the budget by reducing means-tested government expenditures. A faster-growing economy means lower unemployment and higher incomes, resulting in reduced unemployment benefits and other social welfare programs. "

" Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity. "

" A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility. "

" There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking. "

" The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. "

" Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government. "