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Private sector vs. public sector

If a private enterprise is a failure, it is closed down — unless it can get a government subsidy to keep it going; if a government enterprise is a failure, it is expanded. I challenge you to find exceptions.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Milton Friedman

Government is the problem

Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Ronald Reagan

Strong government

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Thomas Jefferson

Congress critters

There is no distinctly Native American criminal class … save Congress.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Mark Twain

Government analogy

The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Ronald Reagan

Talk is cheap

Talk is cheap … except when Congress does it.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Cullen Hightower

Jeopardy

No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Mark Twain

Not jokes, but facts

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Will Rogers

The fiction of government

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Frederic Bastiat

Government responsibility

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories economics, governmentTags P. J. O’Rourke

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