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" The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

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" My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms. "

Nicos Anastasiades

" I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the federal Constitution to have a big federal criminal justice system. "

" But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times? "

" The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse! "

" The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead. "

" I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park. "

" When an American government takes on characteristics that elevate the state above the individual, it must be vigorously opposed as a form of, or step toward, tyranny. "

" I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day, sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go . "

" Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. "

Abraham Lincoln

" As families and small businesses alike are tightening their belts to account for the worsening economy, they have every right to ask: 'Why isn't my government doing the same?' "

" Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes. "

George Papandreou

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

Grover Norquist

" History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. "

Thomas Jefferson

" I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could. "

Kay Bailey Hutchison

" The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back. "

" If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

" Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. "

Alexander Hamilton

" When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy. Instead, the West gradually embraced bigger government and weaker social bonds, creating a fragmented society in which the only thing we all belong to, as President Barack Obama puts it, is the state. "

" Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. "

" If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government. "

Barry Goldwater

" The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land. "

" 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

" I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

" Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name. "

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

Toussaint Louverture

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

" We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. "

Wendell Phillips

" The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities. "

Pranab Mukherjee

" Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government. "

Alexander Hamilton