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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
Unreason is now ascendant in the United States—in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government.
When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.
Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.
When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.
Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.
Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.
I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.
There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.
The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research.
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.
Yahya Khan wasn't interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else.
I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs.
It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.
If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.
We [Federal Government] have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'
The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.
On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.
Big-government liberals don't like people with a sense of independence because independent people don't need big government.
The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.
I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.
The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.
We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.
Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.
The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.
Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive
Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.
The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions.
It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.
Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.
American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.
The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.
I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.
I have hired a bodyguard, on the recommendation of my friends and the government. It's outrageous, having to live like this.
Do you work for the government, any government?” "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
Whatever we get from the government or other people - even one rupee we get, we give it to the poor. Completely free service.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.
After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.