America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world. Votes: 6
I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government. Votes: 4
I think when you've been exposed to the Creator of the universe, then the federal government doesn't seem very powerful. Votes: 4
The government in Turkey, which represents the powerful, traditionalist mass, is very comfortable creating policies tailored only for their supporters. Votes: 4
Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends. Votes: 4
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. Votes: 4
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible. Votes: 4
The responsibility of philanthropy rests with us. The wealthier we are, the more powerful we get. We cannot put the entire onus on the government. Votes: 4
Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture. Votes: 4
And, not only in Budapest. I worked very closely with a very powerful government organization, which shall remain unidentified, to develop the mass marketed version of the Cube. Votes: 4
As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream. Votes: 4
An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects. Votes: 4
In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization. Votes: 4
There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service. Votes: 4
The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful. Votes: 4
The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope. Votes: 4
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks. Votes: 4
Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer. Votes: 4
The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind. Votes: 4
Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive. Votes: 4
The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell. Votes: 2
They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot. Votes: 2
No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers. Votes: 2
Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised by their all-powerful government. Votes: 2
Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in coercing their fellow man. Or as Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek said, "in government, the scum rises to the top". Votes: 2
Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like. Votes: 2
Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a United States with political power centralized in Washington, powerful government agencies with detailed information on Americans and compliant states or power widely dispersed over 50 states, thousands of local jurisdictions and a limited federal government? Votes: 2
The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful. Votes: 0
By adopting programs to distribute substantial amounts of income, a nation guarantees that its government will become more powerful and invasive in other ways. Votes: 0
I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around. Votes: 0
Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute force of government. Votes: 0
A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful. Votes: 0
We live in a time when to reject the idea of an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful government is to be viewed by that government as being anti-government. Votes: 0
As the excited passions of hostile people are of themselves a powerful enemy, both the general and his government should use their best efforts to allay them. Votes: 0
As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful, and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government. Votes: 0
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Votes: 4 Thomas Paine
Fast. Powerful. User-friendly. Now choose any two. Votes: 4 Eric Daniels