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" Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense. "

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" What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. January 20th 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. Everyone is listening to you now. "

" I don't want to put words in Geithner's mouth, but I think he is generally against the revolving door of government officials taking jobs with companies that they have overseen or in roles that involve lobbying. At minimum, I'm pretty sure he felt that way about himself. "

Andrew Ross Sorkin

" Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more. "

William Henry Harrison

" No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor. "

Benjamin Harrison

" You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford. That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this. "

" Government is essentially immoral. "

Herbert Spencer

" In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home. "

Abraham Lincoln

" No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! "

" If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. "

Henry David Thoreau

" If we're the country that makes Amazon and Facebook and Twitter, why can't the federal government have websites and digital services that are awesome? "

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

Lysander Spooner

" 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? "

" The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. "

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

Valerie Jarrett

" If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. "

" The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

" I don't think the federal government should be involved in making life work, right? I mean, the enumerated powers - the state level is fine. The local level's fine. But not - I do not want the federal government trying to make my life work. "

" As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. "

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

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

" If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized. "

Lysander Spooner

" I try to put myself in others' shoes: How does any country give up any sovereignty and expect to survive as a government? I don't think that any Philippine president, or any leader for that matter, can afford to give up any portion of territorial sovereignty. That would be political suicide. "

Benigno Aquino III

" Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. "

Adrian Cronauer

" The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. "

Herbert Spencer

" Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation. "

" A limited government is much more likely to be a competent government. "

Limited Government

" The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. "

" 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. "

" A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. "

" Government should take care of those in America who can't care for themselves. That's a role of government. "