Quotes on Government

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free-enterprise system.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. The Freedom of Information Act doesn't apply to Silicon Valley. And you can't impeach Google if it breaks its 'Don't be evil' campaign pledge.

We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?