The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Ronald Reagan
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
Margaret Thatcher
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Andrew Jackson
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Woodrow Wilson
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Will Rogers
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow Wilson
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
Will Rogers
We have the best government that money can buy.
Mark Twain
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson
Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.
George W. Bush
I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.
Nas
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.
Andrew Jackson
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
James Madison
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
Charles Barkley
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
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
Ronald Reagan
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
Alexander Hamilton
SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.
Elon Musk
Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.
Hillary Clinton
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
Andrew Jackson
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan
No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.
Joe Biden
Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets.
George Soros
Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
Margaret Thatcher
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill
If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
Ronald Reagan
The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
Bill Gates
Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.
Erykah Badu
One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.
Hillary Clinton
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Ronald Reagan
I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.
George W. Bush