The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread. Andy Rooney on government
Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom. Hillary Clinton on government
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. Lysander Spooner on government
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government. Thomas Carlyle on government
As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics. Hillary Clinton on government
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom. Friedrich August von Hayek on government
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 on government
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. Woodrow Wilson on government
One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries. Hillary Clinton on government
The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that. Hillary Clinton on government
If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works. Noam Chomsky on government
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. Edmund Burke on government
You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one. Rush Limbaugh on government
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. Friedrich August von Hayek on government
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. John Adams on government
Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people. Luke Scott on government
I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number? Andy Rooney on government
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. James Madison on government
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. Marco Rubio on government
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy. P. J. O'Rourke on government