Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens. -John Mica
The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development. -Andrew Cuomo
My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America I just don't like some of the things the government is doing. -Eartha Kitt
The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this. -Eliot Spitzer
The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.…
Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. -Gerald R. Ford
In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it. -Cal Thomas
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. -Milton Friedman
I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people. -Mikhail Baryshnikov
Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates. -Ron Wyden
Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make. -Mitch Daniels
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost. -Barack Obama
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -George Bernard Shaw
Truth is the glue that holds government together. -Gerald R. Ford
I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me. -Jesse Ventura
'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that. -Glenn Beck
The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy. -Carly Fiorina
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. -Harry S. Truman
In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes. -Fareed Zakaria
I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor. -Madeleine Albright
