[Killing Arafat] is not the official policy of the Israeli government, … It was never before, and we don’t speak about any killing, we didn’t speak about it before, and we don’t speak about it...

Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?

We believe we’ve got the right mix of personnel in law enforcement for the federal government to meet the demands of public safety.

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police … yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and...

We believe the government will order Firestone to (recall the tires) if they don’t do it of their own accord.

I believe Money is too important to leave in the hands of government officials.

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I.”- Theodore Roosevelt

BARBARIC!

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for...

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!

Nonsense. I would like to say, quite formally and clearly, that my government would never allow something like this.

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government.(A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the...

When you get the government involved in these things, there’s so much red tape and to cut through the red tape, the days it takes, these people are just going to die needlessly.

The fact is, the primary way that Ottawa and Washington deal with Native people is to ignore us. They know that the court system favors the powerful and the wealthy and the influential, and that,...

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

(Talking about the movement to deny the prevalence and effects of adult sexual exploitation of children)So what does this movement consist of? Who are the movers and shakers? Well molesters are in it, of course....

They need to stop using government resources to favor one candidate. That is illegal and immoral. Don’t get involved Mr. President, it is not your job.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

An act of charity by the citizens questions the worthiness of the government.

[F]reedom isn’t free. It shouldn’t be a bragging point that “Oh, I don’t get involved in politics,” as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars...

I used to do it undercover for many years for the government, so I can tell you how simple it is.

Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence communities tend to value secrecy for its own sake. It’s a way of...

tie up three branches of government for the next four months.

Ukanda wa Gaza ni jimbo lenye miji minne na kambi mbalimbali za wakimbizi za Umoja wa Mataifa – lenye urefu wa kati ya kilometa 41 au maili 25 na lenye upana wa kati ya kilometa...

From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a phase of having large groups of people carried away by some emotion–some alluring, attractive, even speciously inspiring,...

Ferbin’s father had had the same robustly pragmatic view of religion as he’d had of everything else. In his opinion, only the very poor and downtrodden really needed religion, to make their laborious lives more...

I say we cut our government in half, with a chainsaw along their waists.

The sole purpose of this trip is to express support for the Lebanese people and for the Lebanese government as they try to recover fully their sovereignty and they continue their efforts to reform.

I can tell you firmly and without any contradiction that this is a terrific list, a really good government, and we are very pleased with the names that have emerged.

We said we were coming [into the government] to implement, and assist [Israeli premier] Ariel Sharon in implementing, the disengagement [from Gaza]. We are demanding the confidence of the public; it will be very difficult...

I believe that in the next 15 days we can have a new government and present it to parliament.

If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yourself too much figuring out what they think is going on, and therefore, generally speaking, you...

Here then is an infallible criterion, by which the nation may judge of the intentions of those who govern it … if they corrupt the morals of the people, spread a taste for luxury, effeminacy,...

Working in the Major government, we all saw, pretty close at hand – perhaps closer than a junior minister – the problems that the party was facing, … Those who learned the lessons, and those...

It may be bad for you, but government has no role in dictating our lives. People should be free to imprison themselves.

Therefore, the government will launch an operation to enforce the law against the practice.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

Other nations merely change governments as a lady changes dancing partners: Canada contrives to fall in a dead faint every time the music stops.

I think it’s ironic that the way the Chinese government prepares to host the United Nations Commission on Human Rights is by placing dissidents under house arrest.

It’s a symptom of too much government largesse. Everyone is elbowing their way to the trough to get their fair share.

In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with...

Every new and successful example, therefore, of a perfect separation between the ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance; and I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has...

We call on the Ethiopian government to halt the police violence and set up an independent and impartial commission of inquiry.

The government is making good points from a public-relations perspective but a number of points haven’t been touched.

We formed an impromptu circle just so we could look at each other and memorize faces. We hardly noticed the waiting officials. We hardly noticed anything but our little family whose ties weren’t loosening at...

You take a straight tip from the stable, Cokey, if you must hate, hate the government or the people or the sea or men, but don’t hate an individual person. Who’s done you a real...

Nothing would have happened unless the U.S. government sent that letter.

The government needs to support child-rearing families by distributing public funds fairly and equally.

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.