Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today. – Hjalmar Schacht
What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government. – Harold Washington
We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants. – Herbert Hoover
Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government. – Gerald F. Lieberman
Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free trade. But actually, if you look at the history, this is actually the country that has succeeded most with protectionist policies. – Ha-Joon Chang
We can only imagine what would happen to our health care and to the quality of our health care here in North Dakota if we took the federal government out of health care. – Heidi Heitkamp
It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger. – Henry Paulson
We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy. – Grover Norquist
Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism. – Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. – Henry A. Wallace
This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it’s all checks and no balances. – Gracie Allen
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. – Henry David Thoreau
We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens. – Grover Norquist
In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people’s office. – Grover Cleveland
I run a taxpayer group – the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful – a handful of groups that fight for less spending. – Grover Norquist
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. – George Haven Putnam
First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot. – George Crook
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
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw Everybody’s Political What’s What, Chapter 30.
It’s so critical for people frustrated with the economy, with changing tides in government, who aren’t able to hear their voices, questions or their ills being talked about, to have a place for discussing what others won’t. – George Noory
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press. – Hugo Black
It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. – Herbert Hoover
When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the federal government arbitrarily places one of those factors over others, it makes consumers worse off. – Gina McCarthy
Exporting oil would not drive up prices at the pump. American drivers buy refined products, which the U.S. already exports. Many studies – from a range of institutions and government agencies, including the Congressional Budget Office and the Energy Information Administration – have shown that lifting the export ban could actually lower gas prices. – Harold Hamm
Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves. – Grover Norquist
Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. – George Haven Putnam
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world. – Garet Garrett
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves. – Grover Cleveland