Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. Charles Horton Cooley
We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's? Thomas Frank
The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied. Jeremiah Wright
I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government. Doris Lessing
The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians. Geronimo
I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken. Herman Cain
Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. Lord Acton
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. Mary Astell
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people. James A. Garfield
Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business. Erykah Badu
The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth. Steve Wynn
Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts. Chris Christie
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government. George McGovern
A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government. Al Gore
The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it. Michael Bloomberg
Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion? Michael Bloomberg