#gov

The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military. ↗

— Warren Rudman

#attack #disaster #entire #equipped #government

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education. ↗

— John Ruskin

#duty #education #first #food #fuel

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#freedom #government #itself #only #opinion

We haven't done such a great job, so I don't know why God couldn't have started over somewhere else. I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#buy #coming #cover-up #done #else

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#declaration #founders #god #got #government

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#bizarre #caricature #course #dichotomy #does

The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I've tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women, and millions like them across America, to join our cause and get this country working again. When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#again #america #ask #asked #been

If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#does #followed #give #government #iraqi

We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road. ↗

— Rick Santelli

#anybody #away #business #debt #down

Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#believe #big #big government #candidly #corporations