Government

The government is a group of people who control or make decisions on behalf of a country, state or region. The government normally consists of legislators, administrators, and arbitrators, and occasionally dictators. Below are some of the greatest government quotes on the web.

"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency."
― Douglas MacArthur
"Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good."
― Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments."
― Donald Rumsfeld
"Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits."
― Dale Dauten
"You can’t fall back on the private sector and say, ‘You take care of the nation’s banking system.’ That’s a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there."
― Dick Cheney
"I didn’t do improv in college, I never performed, I didn’t do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major."
― Demetri Martin
"Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them."
― Dean Inge
"Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers – we need our faith-based and community partners."
― Dirk Kempthorne
"Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad."
― Denis Diderot
"As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government’s role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital."
― Donald Evans

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