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A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

Larry Ellison

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

But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.

Jonathan Mayhew

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

Richard Lamm

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Russell Lowell

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Jorge Luis Borges

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

H. L. Mencken

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Sydney J. Harris

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

P. J. O'Rourke

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

P. J. O'Rourke

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Jonathan Swift

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

P. J. O'Rourke

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

Dirk Kempthorne

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 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 not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

William E. Gladstone

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Alexander Woollcott