The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.
Governments are just large corporations, and large corporations are just small governments.
Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.
We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.
If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.
it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.
It is easier to govern a country than a son.
Who can't pretend cannot govern.
Only fools are glad when governments change.
If peace reigns in the land, a nun can govern it.
I'll do anything for free stuff.
But in the free market system, you're forced to change.
We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. Society promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, government negatively by restraining our vices. Society encourages intercourse. Government creates distinctions.
I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to...
Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.
What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get kids to schools, and have access to medicine and hospitals. Government may not directly provide these public goods and services, but gov...
The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in their own communities. The siting decisions and the permitting is done at the local level, or by state governments if it's ...
