#Government

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."

"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."

"I question the equation like an equestrian, and I realize it’s horseshit. What is the equation? Vote=Change."

"In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship."

"I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws."

"We do need a system, and we do need you and your 'Bertos, and sometimes we need Sam to just come along and kick some ass. - Quinn"

"The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other."

"Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians."

"Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education."

"The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else."

"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."

"We can all agree that government can't solve the obesity crisis alone. It's an ongoing issue that will require a collaborative effort across private and public sectors if we want to see some long-term success."

"I’m on a government watch list. But I’m not interested, because government watches only work twenty minutes out of every hour."

"One of the most productive ways a government can spend money on the people is by building more prisons. That’s what makes the US so great. That’s what freedom is all about."

"The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational."

"Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent."

"There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table."

"The Federal Government pushing drugs and then punishing marijuana growers is like the pot calling the kettle green."

"I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art."

"A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?"