“In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.”
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“Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.”
“I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.”
“Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.”
“In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.”
“So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!”
“I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.”
“The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.”
“My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.”
“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.”
“I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.”
“Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.”
“It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.”
“That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.”
“The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.”
“The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.”
“Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.”
“As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.”
“Government is essentially immoral.”
“When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.”
“The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.”
“Government is dysfunctional.”
“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.”
“It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.”