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" Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry. "

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

Sheldon Whitehouse

" The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States. "

" A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves. "

Grover Cleveland

" The British Government very naturally would like to see in India the form of democratic constitutions it knows best and thinks best, under which the Government of the country is entrusted to one or other political party in accordance with the turn of elections. "

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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

" American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas. "

" While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary. "

" You have six of the ten wealthiest counties in America surround Washington, D.C., and the poor and middle class are getting squeezed while people at the top and people with influence in government seem always to be doing better. "

" Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. "

" I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer. "

" A government is for the benefit of all the people. "

William Howard Taft

" Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in general, they recognize that government must play an important role for a society to operate. "

Norman Ornstein

" If you win elections on the theory that government is always bad and will mess up a two-car parade... a real change-maker represents a real threat. So your only option is to create a cartoon, a cartoon alternative, then run against the cartoon. Cartoons are two-dimensional; they're easy to absorb. "

William J. Clinton

" The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people. "

Milton Friedman

" I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers. "

" 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?' "

" I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe. "

" If men were angels, no government would be necessary. "

" Democracy is an abuse of statistics. "

Jorge Luis Borges

" If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'? "

" Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. "

John Perry Barlow

" Democracy passes into despotism. "

" Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress for meaningful immigration reform. "

" A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. "

" Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights. "

Leland Stanford

" The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. "

" The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands. "

Bhumibol Adulyadej

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

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

Wendell Phillips

" There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic. "