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Government

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development. – Andrew Cuomo

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them. – Loni Anderson

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. – Steve King

And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader. – Rafik Hariri

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. – Elihu Root

If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you. – Neal Boortz

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny. – Barbara Jordan

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance. – Barbara Jordan

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government. – Robert Taft

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms. – Gerry Adams

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress. – Benazir Bhutto

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility. – Jonathan Krohn

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. – Paul Tsongas

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets. – Gary Hart

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government. – Theodore Bikel

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. – William Godwin

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. – Franklin Pierce

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services. – Imran Khan

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government. – Tim Scott

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system. – Imran Khan