“Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.”
— Steve Allen
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“But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.”
— James Q. Wilson
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“My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.”
— Jay Weatherill
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“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.”
— John Podhoretz
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“Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.”
— Dennis Prager
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“Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.”
— Michael Badnarik
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“The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.”
— Tom Clancy
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“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.”
— Andrew Jackson
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