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If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

We do not walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the we is all of us. It is not the government. It is all of us doing this together.

I do not consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets.

The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.

I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run.

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

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

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?