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

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" There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done. "

" The role of the church and the government are fundamentally different. The church must always show compassion - always. "

" All government, of course, is against liberty. "

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

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" 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

" Democracy must learn to defend itself. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

" 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

" We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us. "

" A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government. "

Lysander Spooner

" This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. "

" Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners. "

Dirk Kempthorne

" My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims. "

" We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect. "

" People like getting what they think is free stuff from government. "

" Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. "

James Russell Lowell

" A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. "

" Real government is about looking beyond the vested to the national interest, setting up the necessary conditions to enable the next, more enabled and more empowered generation to achieve a country as prosperous, a people as content, as ours deserve to be. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government. "

" Tonight, I want to say to every member of the democratic party, who believes in limited government, in personal opportunity and the united States constitution, and a safe and secure America, come home. To the Reagan Democrats, your party has left you. And the Republican party wants you, we welcome you back. "

" We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back. "

Melina Mercouri

" The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes. "

" Let's make it simple: Government control means uniformity, regulation, fees, inspection, and yes, compliance. "

" Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

" 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

" When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. "

" It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. "

" It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot. "

Susan B. Anthony

" The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. "

" I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated. "

" We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again. "