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" Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity. "

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" Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" A Supreme Court justice needs to understand that he is not a politician. He needs to understand that the judiciary is a passive branch of government. His decisions should not proactively seek to set policy. "

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

Charles de Gaulle

" I don't believe any person looking for work is fearful of political judgment. Government is a large institution, and if they believe that people are going to get rid of good employees for political reasons, that's absurd. "

" I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public's trust. "

" How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. "

Henry David Thoreau

" An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. "

" Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution. "

" This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. "

Abraham Lincoln

" When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. "

" I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers. "

Michael Bloomberg

" We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government. "

" In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? "

Saint Augustine

" History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. "

" 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

" Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves. "

" But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem. "

" Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. "

" 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. "

" I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government. "

William H. Wharton

" To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates. "

Arnold Schwarzenegger

" I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system. "

" The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought. "

Martin Van Buren

" Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community. "

" I believe if an individual wants to join organized labor and work under a union contract, they should have the legal right to do so. At the same token, a person who does not want to work under organized labor and wants to work should have the ability to do so without the threat of having to join and having to pay dues to organized labor. "

" I stand today on this floor to appeal for protection from the strong arm of the government for her loyal children, irrespective of color and race, who are citizens of the southern states, and particularly of the State of Georgia. "

Hiram Rhodes Revels

" The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. "

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

" In German science, we have a special problem. We lose talented women at the time they get pregnant. Some of it occurs because they are encouraged - by their husbands, bosses and the government - to take long maternity leaves. "

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

" We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. "

Henry A. Wallace

" We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is wealth, with its corrupting, demoralizing influences. Let us never have a Government at Washington owing its retention to the power of the millionaires rather than to the will of millions. "

Joseph Pulitzer