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" The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. "

Martin Van Buren

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" The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. "

John Stuart Mill

" 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? "

" I think the Eritrean government is aware that any full-scale invasion of Ethiopia along the lines of 1998 could turn out to be suicidal... And we will not respond to any provocation short of all-out invasion. We are already engaged in a much more fruitful war - against poverty. "

" I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. "

" In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the government bureaucratic stovepipes that inhibit our abilities to effectively defend America while ensuring citizens' privacy and civil liberties are also protected. "

" To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. "

Wendell Phillips

" Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world. "

Michele Bachmann

" The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. "

Abraham Lincoln

" The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. "

" Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make. "

" The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment. "

" Our politicians are stupid. And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning. And they send the bad ones over because they don't want to pay for them. They don't want to take care of them. Why should they when the stupid leaders of the United States will do it for them? "

" I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. "

William F. Buckley, Jr.

" But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with. "

Jonathan Mayhew

" The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics. "

" 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. "

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

" Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility. "

" I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion. "

Leland Stanford

" Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government. "

" In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures. "

" It sometimes seems easier to trace the great general laws of God's government in the passage of events far from us than in those close around us. We see the shape of those far-off constellations, but we cannot group or set in order that to which our own sun belongs. "

Edward Everett Hale

" Democracy is an abuse of statistics. "

Jorge Luis Borges

" The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically. "

Lysander Spooner

" As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press. "

" It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. "

Winston Churchill

" From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country. "

" The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. "

" 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