Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.
‐‐ Kim Campbell
Government cannot be all things to all people.
‐‐ Jane D. Hull
Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.
‐‐ Ernie Fletcher
Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.
‐‐ Iain Duncan Smith
Government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare, and later with Medicaid, and government already distorts the marketplace.
‐‐ Roy Blunt
Government does create prosperity and growth by creating the conditions that allow both entrepreneurs and their customers to thrive; balancing the power of capitalists like me and workers isn't bad for capitalism - it's essential to it.
‐‐ Nick Hanauer
Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
‐‐ Mitch Daniels
Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
‐‐ Bob Riley
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
Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.
‐‐ Marsha Blackburn
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
‐‐ Ronald Reagan
Government doesn't do much for the new Americans. The assumption is that they'll take care of themselves if they work hard enough.
‐‐ David Levering Lewis
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
‐‐ Thomas Paine
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
‐‐ Ronald Reagan
Government experts have estimated that ANWR reserves would only provide enough oil for six months of U.S. oil consumption. In addition, the oil industry itself has estimated that it would take 10 years to bring this oil to the market.
‐‐ Allyson Schwartz
Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality.
‐‐ Bill Owens
Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.
‐‐ Melinda Gates
'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.
‐‐ John Major
Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.
‐‐ Thomas Woods
Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
‐‐ Cal Thomas
Government has a rightful role, but not an excessive role, to play.
‐‐ Jeff Fortenberry
Government has got to open up and engage citizenry as partners.
‐‐ Cory Booker
Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.
‐‐ Steve Wynn
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
‐‐ John Locke
Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura
Government has not been good about being good stewards of policy.
‐‐ Suzan DelBene
Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.
‐‐ Michele Bachmann
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.
‐‐ Mark Steyn
Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
‐‐ Ayn Rand
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
‐‐ Mackenzie King
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
‐‐ Norman Cousins
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.
‐‐ Jimmy Carter
Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke
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
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
‐‐ Leo Tolstoy
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
‐‐ Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura
Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.
‐‐ Thomas Frank
Government is connected to everything we do.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura
Government is dysfunctional.
‐‐ Michael Bloomberg
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
‐‐ John Updike
Government is essentially immoral.
‐‐ Herbert Spencer
Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
‐‐ Harry Browne
Government is inevitably going to play a very significant role in infrastructure, and in a country with a federal system where vibrancy and economic health depend on interstate commerce, it's not going to be private enterprise or state governments that will give you things like an interstate highway system.
‐‐ Norman Ornstein
Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.
‐‐ Charley Reese
Government is just spending too much money.
‐‐ Bob Schaffer
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
‐‐ Ronald Reagan
Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura
Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.
‐‐ Michael Badnarik