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If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.
Muqtada al Sadr on government

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.
Lyn Nofziger on government

Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people.
Muqtada al Sadr on government

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
Henry A. Wallace on government

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.
Muqtada al Sadr on government

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.
Dave Eggers on government

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.
Muqtada al Sadr on government

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
Isaac Watts on government

I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.
Al-Waleed bin Talal on government

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.
Tim Scott on government

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.
Gary Bauer on government

So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.
Monica Lewinsky on government

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.
Jesse Ventura on government

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
Gary Bauer on government

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.
Jesse Ventura on government

I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
Vince Cable on government

Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
Gary Bauer on government

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.
Jesse Ventura on government

You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous.
Vince Cable on government

The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.
Gary Bauer on government