Kutipan (Quote) - Government (2)

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.
Chris Rock

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
Vladimir Lenin

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
William Penn

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
Larry Ellison

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
Cullen Hightower

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
Alexander Woollcott

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
Robert Half

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

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
Charles de Secondat

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
Larry Flynt

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
Robert Orben

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
Cal Thomas

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
Henry Clay

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
John W. Gardner

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
Lord Acton

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
Lewis Mumford

Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.
Bill Owens

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.
Bill Owens

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Adrian Cronauer

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.
Fred Woodworth

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
William E. Gladstone

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.
Kay Bailey Hutchison

But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
Jonathan Mayhew

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
Wilhelm Reich

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.
James Q. Wilson

The essence of good government is trust.
Kathleen Sebelius

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
Cullen Hightower

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
Dale Dauten

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
Dirk Kempthorne

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
Fred Woodworth