It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
Herbert Hoover

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
Michel de Montaigne

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.
John McCain

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Herbert Hoover

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
Herbert Hoover

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Barry Goldwater

A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.
Barry Goldwater

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
Michael Moore

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
Barry Goldwater

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
Barry Goldwater

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.
Golda Meir

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke

There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
Jack Kevorkian

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.
Steve Irwin

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
Otto von Bismarck

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli

That fatal drollery called a representative government.
Benjamin Disraeli

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
John Ruskin