Quotes About Control

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

On one side the government, the other side the mob.

The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party.

Governments don't control people like they used to.

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.

If government were a plant, it would be kudzu.

The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet or your wallet than it is to change a government with your vote.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.

Either we have the government forcing us and telling us what we have to do, where we have to do it and how much we have to pay for it or we put ourselves in charge - we as consumers, as patients.

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. . . . The examples of government misusing religion are endless.

Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government makes you think that it all comes from them.

Let them obey that knows not how to rule.

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.

Governments everywhere, including here in the Unites States, have created ever-expanding bureaucracies that regulate nearly every aspect of our lives.

Officially in America we now have a totally arbitrary and limitless government. That is, we have a 'total government.' In short, we've got totalitarian government.

Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.

It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.