#government

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech. ↗

— Rick Perry

#another #courage #government #jobs #less

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people. ↗

— Rick Perry

#found #government #greatness #hearts #minds

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#few #friends #governments #loved #many

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#debt #disease #fatal #first #first thing

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#congress #gravitation #hear #kept #law

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#big business #big government #business #fear #government

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.' ↗

— Ann Richards

#did #everyone #government #house #i

To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it. ↗

— Irene Peter

#government #make #run #unprofitable

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#difficult #economy #government #grow #hands

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#bodies #branches #direct #elections #exception