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Government

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel! – Eddie Izzard

We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. – Paul Ryan

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. – Martin Van Buren

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it. – Woodrow Wilson

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation. – Woodrow Wilson

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. – Will Durant

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens. – Jesse Ventura

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. – Andrew Jackson

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support. – Lysander Spooner

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions. – Noah Webster

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong. – Jerome K. Jerome

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion. – Marco Rubio

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good. – Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Government is essentially immoral. – Herbert Spencer

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry. – David Mamet

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals. – Golda Meir

Government is dysfunctional. – Michael Bloomberg

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same. – Marco Rubio

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom. – Jimmy Carter

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat