Quotes of: Rand Keyword

The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

Mark Skousen

The most important point is, in a time of crisis, there is no way out but for the government to be bold and aggressive.

Mark Zandi

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Noam Chomsky

At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.

Noreena Hertz

Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.

Norman Lamm

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

Nassau William Senior

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.

Peter Schiff

The left-wing agenda wants us to think that the reason there was a depression was because the government didn't do anything. That's not true.

Peter Schiff

Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed it when he took office in January 2009.

Peter Singer

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

Rush Limbaugh

Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.

Robert Reich

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.

Thomas Clarkson

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

William Vickrey

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

William Weld

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

William Weld

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

Sue Monk Kidd

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

Alfred Marshall

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

Mikhail Bakunin

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

Thomas Sowell

There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.

Daniel Kahneman

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

George Ayittey