Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favour of a few influential politicians or a government agency than to compete in the open market. - Charles G. Koch
No centralized government, no matter how big, how smart or how powerful, can effectively and efficiently control much of society in a beneficial way. On the contrary, big governments are inherently inefficient and harmful. - Charles G. Koch
Repeatedly asking for government help undermines the foundations of society by destroying initiative and responsibility. It is also a fatal blow to efficiency and corrupts the political process. - Charles G. Koch
Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government... They have driven the American economy since its founding, and the prosperity of our country is largely dependent on the free operation of corporations. But some corporations don't want free markets, and they don't want democracy. They want profits. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
There is nothing wrong with corporations. Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government. Corporations are good because they drive our economy, they encourage people to assemble wealth and to risk it and then create jobs. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. - Abraham Lincoln
To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government. - Socrates
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man -- to protect person and property -- to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak -- in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more.
Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. - Leo Tolstoy
The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.' - George Clooney
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. - Abraham Lincoln
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