#government

People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant. ↗

— Scott Cook

#government #pension #people #place #plans

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#add #aid #aims #artificial #consequences

I am the Federal Government. ↗

— Tom DeLay

#federal #federal government #government #i #i am

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#control #creating #creator #endowed #freedom

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#between #collective #employers #governments #legislate

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#any #away #best #business #minds

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president. ↗

— Charlton Heston

#again #anyone #bad #bad guy #certainly

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. ↗

— Sam Houston

#community #diffused #education #essential #free

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#am #energetic #friend #government #i

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#belief #between #everything #government #idea