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" Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. "

Milton Friedman

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" You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them. "

" The government of the United States doesn't want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war. It wants peace, but what's happening in Iraq? What happened in Lebanon? Palestine? What's happening? What's happened over the last hundred years in Latin America and in the world? "

" Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. "

" I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it. "

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

" If you want to believe that the government's coming for our guns or that being gay is a choice and a sin or that ObamaCare signals the end of civilization or that cutting taxes for rich people is the path to a better America, that's your choice. I'm never going to believe in any of that. "

" I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. "

John Maynard Keynes

" There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. "

Stokely Carmichael

" The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract. "

Robert A. Heinlein

" Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it. "

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

" Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. "

Milton Friedman

" Republican liberty depends on citizen participation, on a government that is of, for, and by the people. "

" 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 presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people. "

" If people can't expect their government to be honest and clean, they can't expect anything from it. "

" It is not good to have a rule of many. "

" The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could develop. Investors have scant patience for the years of good governance - politically fraught fiscal restructuring, austerity and debt rescheduling - it takes to defuse a sovereign-debt crisis. "

Andrew Ross Sorkin

" 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. "

" One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue. "

" When the Constitution was written in 1787, there was this supposition that American politics would be above party. The people who would staff the positions in government would have the interests of the country, or at least their states and congressional districts, at heart, and so they wouldn't form permanent political parties. "

" Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well. "

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" It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. "

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" A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. "