Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives. – Rick Perry
It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government. – Rick Perry
We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care. – Rick Perry
Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people. – Andrew Cuomo
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people. – Ralph Nader
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. – Steve Allen
Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are. – Glenn Beck
When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. – Bono
The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people. – Andrew Johnson
By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate. – John Podhoretz
The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied. – Jeremiah Wright
The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians. – Geronimo
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people. – James A. Garfield
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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
A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government. – Al Gore
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
I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament. – Tony Blair
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. – Herbert Spencer
