"When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home." ― Rick Perry Topic(s): Government More From Rick Perry "Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don’t need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You’re doing nothing more than killing jobs. It’s a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A." "As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn’t first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens." "Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now." More In Government "I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."― Thomas Jefferson "When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little."― Miuccia Prada "That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together."― Noel Coward