Government

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you dont always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse! – Chinua Achebe

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans. – P. J. ORourke

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise. – P. J. ORourke

Its a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that ones safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. – Alan Shepard

One of the things the government cant do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt. – Lee Iacocca

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didnt come back, and make sure the Taliban wasnt resurging. It didnt work out. – Colin Powell

I dont look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. – Kin Hubbard

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the peoples trust in their government. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, wed have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense. – William J. Clinton

We dont need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again. – Marco Rubio

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician whos been dead for 15 years. – Harry S. Truman

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. Thats true. – William J. Clinton

And gradually theyre beginning to recognize the fact that theres nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But its sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms. – Wole Soyinka

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if were some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. Its a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits. – Paul Ryan

The peoples government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. – Daniel Webster

We believe, as our founders did, that the pursuit of happiness depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government. – Paul Ryan

Barack Obamas enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obamas enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it. – Rush Limbaugh

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if facts are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions? – J. C. Watts

People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, thats what happened. – George W. Bush

As Americans, we dont 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