940 private quotes tagged government

“My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.”— John Bolton

“The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.”— Bob Schieffer

“Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.”— Michael Bloomberg

“I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.”— Andrew Cuomo

“The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.”— James Monroe

“Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.”— Norman Cousins

“The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.”— Andrew Jackson

“I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.”— Billy Graham

“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.”— Amos Bronson Alcott

“Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.”— Tom Robbins

“It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.”— Herbert Hoover

“I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.”— Michael Bloomberg

“Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.”— Jesse Ventura

“Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.”— Erykah Badu

“Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.”— Dalton Trumbo

“Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.”— John Podhoretz

“I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.”— Tony Campolo

“We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.”— Rick Santelli

“We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.”— Stephen Harper

“Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.”— James Buchan

“The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.”— John Sununu

“I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.”— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

“Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.”— Wendell Phillips

“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”— P. J. O'Rourke

“The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.”— Rush Limbaugh