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I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government. – Louis Farrakhan

People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing. – Benjamin Carson

Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now. – Benjamin Carson

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays… a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same. – Jesse Ventura

What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford. – Freeman Dyson

The government invented the Internet. – Jon Meacham

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time. – Jon Meacham

The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point. – Jon Meacham

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other? – Jon Meacham

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government. – Tony Blair

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. – William Lyon Mackenzie King

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations. – Jeff Goodell

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people. – Stephen Harper

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters. – Stephen Harper

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it. – Stephen Harper

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world. – Ginger Baker

Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad. – Iain Duncan Smith

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant? – Rand Paul

People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed. – Arlen Specter

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself. – James Wolcott