Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country. - Edward Abbey I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq. - Stephen Colbert The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not. - Eric Anderson Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents. - Kevin J Anderson You got any experience? (Carlos) I'm former army intelligence, Special Forces, on contract to the U.S. government now for national security. That good enough for you, amigo? (Stoner) It'll do. (Carlos) - Sherrilyn Kenyon The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from a...

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone. - Joichi Ito Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government. - Rush Limbaugh As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility. - Rick Perry I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run. - Clarence Thomas

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other. - John Adams No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! - Ronald Reagan No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams. - Jesse Jackson No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. - Thomas Jefferson No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousnes...

In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities. - Spencer Bachus By creating a Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, we will give local governments a framework for working together on an issue that affects our whole state. - Roy Barnes These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments to prepare them to enter the workplace, or attend college, and successfully manage their lives. - Charles Foster Bass State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21. - Charles Foster Bass Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs t...

I follow a set of principles, I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom and individual liberty. - Justin Amash Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom. - John Bolton As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship. - Arthur C Brooks Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we'll do well as a party. - Tom Coburn I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do. - Mitch Daniels I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came t...

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy. - Chris Chocola I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater. - Milton Friedman To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement. - Jim Gibbons

After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country. - Michele Bachmann I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean. - Peter Brimelow Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency. - Chris Chocola When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to exp...

After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise. - Ari Fleischer I don't want a government shutdown. I don't think anyone does. - Mike Lee 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

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it. - Marc Faber There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals for government control in their ideal form, as they might work if run by able, disinterested men free from the pressure of special interest groups. - Milton Friedman The American Dream is to not have to work, so with unemployment at record levels, you'd think more people would be excited and grateful for the government intervention that got us to this glorious economic point. - Jarod Kintz It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census. - Patrick Mchenry It is the principal paradox of this period that the only sphere of our economic system in which government intervention is ...

In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war. - Mark Burnett Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever. - Rush Limbaugh Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home. - Rick Scott

I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature. - Kabir Bedi Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer. - Kurt Vonnegut Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency. - Yoshihiko Noda

The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in their own communities. The siting decisions and the permitting is done at the local level, or by state governments if it's interstate in nature. And federal government - this is one area we have no authority. - Spencer Abraham The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement. - Ronald Reagan The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government. - Ronald Reagan There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nu...

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world. - Ginger Baker Because I took an oath to help people. To protect them from The League and any corrupt government. (Devyn) Yeah, and I know people better than to believe that for even an instant. Altruism is dead. People use and they take until you're nothing but a bleeding corpse on the ground at their feet. (Alix) - Sherrilyn Kenyon The only person on this ship who gets paid for what they do is you, Alix. The rest of us live off our trust funds and we use those funds for our humanitarian missions. I do what I do because I can't stand to see innocent people bullied by a corrupt government. I don't want to see a baby starve and die because some fat politician wants to work its parents into the ground for a mineral most of them can't even pronounce. (Devyn) - Sherrilyn Kenyon When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government minister...

This book (Jarod Kintz's book) is trash. I mean, I assume it is, because that's where I found it while scrounging for lunch. However, I must admit that I haven't read it. I would have, but I am homeless, mainly due to my illiteracy (though Big Government, Keynesian monetary policy, and my struggle with alcoholism certainly played a large role). - Dora J Arod Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work! - Lou Barletta People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free. - Glenn Beck We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was. - Glenn Beck 'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that. - Glenn Beck The President and the Democrats on Congress ha...

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world. - Ginger Baker How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. - Henry David Thoreau Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds," I added. Radar tapped a locker twice with his fist to show his approval, and then came back with another. "Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force. - John Green The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition. - Norm Dicks Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assur...

I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement. - Mark Cuban I am against government by crony. - Harold L Ickes I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government. - Jack Kemp