"World War II was the last government program that really worked." ― George Will Topic(s): Government More From George Will "Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose." "There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice." "I suppose there’s a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it’s the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom." More In Government "Music is more difficult – try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political."― Thom Yorke "I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues – Tories – in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I’m not a believer in laissez-faire."― Vince Cable "It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government."― Rick Perry