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" 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

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

Robert A. Heinlein

" We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation of everything. That country is become a great, mighty, and splendid nation; not because their government is strong and energetic, but, sir, because liberty is its direct end and foundation. "

" The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. "

Hubert H. Humphrey

" 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. "

" The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make terms of peace, and to establish relations of amity between the two sections. "

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

" This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty. "

" The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive. "

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

Martin Van Buren

" The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That's why they put so many checks and balances into our system, to guard against the excesses of a government that might be inflamed by public passion or perverted by a dictator's whim. "

" The heart is the best reflective thinker. "

Wendell Phillips

" Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right. "

" Government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people; it wasn't intended to be all things to all people. "

" 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. "

" We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online. "

" The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly. "

Alexander Hamilton

" That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. "

Thomas Jefferson

" When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. "

Winston Churchill

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

" As an American, I repudiate Russia's or any other foreign government's attempt to interfere or meddle in our democratic process, and I would call on all Americans to do the same. "

Michael D. Cohen

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

" We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out. "

" As a Cherokee, I can attest to the fact that Native Americans have been on the losing side of history. Our rights have been infringed upon, our treaties have been broken, our culture has been stolen, and our tribes have been decimated at the hands of our own United States government. "

Markwayne Mullin

" 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 income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. "

Barry Goldwater

" My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. "

Grover Norquist

" A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. "

Thomas Jefferson

" When we embraced social media, we took more control of the Newark narrative. We increased responsiveness toward residents. We drew more of our constituents in to participate in government and improve our cities. "

" The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. "

" One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it. "

" How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? "

Charles de Gaulle