The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
Wilhelm Reich

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Gore Vidal

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Milton Friedman

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Woodrow Wilson

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
Cullen Hightower

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
Lewis Mumford

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
Henry Ward Beecher

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Will Rogers

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
Wendell Phillips

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
Robert Orben

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.
Chris Rock