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Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.
If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.
It's easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where the government might legitimately give out false information.
As government grows, its increased power to grant favors or inflict pain attracts more people who would abuse the system.
My family is just like most other families - we rise and fall on good and bad government policy. Politics affects us all.
Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.
An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.
The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist.
A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.
Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.
I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?
Our government has made a whole lot of promises that, in the long run, it cannot possibly keep without huge tax increases.
Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.
Japan needs to cooperate with China economically. This is understood better by the business community than the government.
I think all of our ministers are relatively inexperienced. I'm relatively inexperienced. We're a six-month-old government.
By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.
There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government.
Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society.
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess.
Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.
When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.
When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies.
The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?
Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.
The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.
You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.
Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.
The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.
Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.
The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.
That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.
Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled.
Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.
Its often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.
What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.