"When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same."

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"When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same."

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"We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid."

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"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."

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"No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government."

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"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."

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"I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible."

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"For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism."

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"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."

Steve Forbes, American Businessman

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"It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you."

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"Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated."

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"Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it."

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