"People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix." - Sarah PalinTweet
"Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction." - Charles Horton CooleyTweet
"My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged." - Jimmy WalesTweet
"I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts." - Harold MacMillanTweet
"No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal." - Franklin D. RooseveltTweet
"The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government." - Jim HightowerTweet
"I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions." - Vaclav HavelTweet
"I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule." - Arlen SpecterTweet
"The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way." - Milton FriedmanTweet
"Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility." - Dalton TrumboTweet