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Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control. -- Barton Gellman
I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system. -- Judd Gregg
Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better. -- Harry Browne
Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism. -- Paul Broun
I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights. -- Michael Moriarty
The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same. -- Marco Rubio
If the government controls your health care, the government controls you. Obamacare was never about health care. It was about government power, dependency, and control. -- Monica Crowley
There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control. -- Iris Chang
When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens. -- Michael Badnarik
What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won't be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control. -- Butch Otter
The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time. -- Debbie Stabenow
Experience tells us that we do not need more overspending or higher taxes to grow jobs. We do not need more regulations or more government control - such as the government takeover of health care or the restrictions in domestic energy production. -- Tim Walberg
The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force. -- Ben Shapiro
This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty. -- Ted Cruz
In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe. This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control. -- Bob Barr
The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads. -- Sheldon Richman
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation -- Napoleon Bonaparte
All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington ... -- Margaret Ayer Barnes
Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government control. -- David Titley
If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state? -- Tony Campolo
In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time. -- Edward Abbey
It's not about contraception. It's about economic liberty, it's about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of religion, it's about government control of your lives and it's got to stop! -- Rick Santorum
The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities. -- Harrison Schmitt
The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people. -- Milton Friedman
When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens. -- Michael Badnarik
I believe we are slowly turning into a socialist government. The government is continually growing bigger and more powerful and the people need to prepare to defend themselves against government control. -- Timothy McVeigh
For more than 220 years - from the 1620s to the 1840s - most American schooling was independent of government control, subsidy, and influence. From this educational freedom the American Republic was born. -- Marshall Fritz
What government supports, government controls. This is an ancient axiom repeatedly ratified by experience. . . . Indeed, as is well known, acceptance of tax aid has led to the secularization of many church-related colleges and universities. -- Edd Doerr
It is America, I don't want the government trying to control more of my life. I want less government control, and I think there are too many government regulations, laws and taxes on the books. -- Trent Lott
The consequences of inflation are malinvestment, waste, a wanton redistribution of wealth and income, the growth of speculation and gambling, immorality and corruption, disillusionment, social resentment, discontent, upheaval and riots, bankruptcy, increased government controls, and eventual collapse. -- Henry Hazlitt
It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to 'preserve' private property-with government control of its use and disposal. But that is the fundamental characteristic of fascism. -- Ayn Rand
If Republican legislators succumb to their political addiction to compromise for the sake of getting something passed, no matter how odious, they'll be laying out the red carpet of inevitability for socialized care. Once government gets its foot in the door, more government control is unavoidable. -- David Limbaugh
Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control necessary. For this reason all those who wish to stop the drift toward increasing government control should concentrate their effort on monetary policy. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control of every sphere of the individuals life and the unrestricted supremacy of the government in its capacity as central board of production management. -- Ludwig von Mises
There is no use in deceiving ourselves. American public opinion rejects the market economy, the capitalistic free enterprise system that provided the nation with the highest standard of living ever attained. Full government control of all activities of the individual is virtually the goal of both national parties. -- Ludwig von Mises
Let us give up our longing for welfare, our love of war, and our desire to see the government control and shape our fellow citizens. We must come to imagine liberty again, and believe that it can be a reality. We must recapture what it means to be free. -- Ron Paul
... until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and "unfair" public criticism. Moreover, their failure to impose voluntarily upon their own groups codes of decency and honor will result in more and more necessity for government control. -- Mary Barnett Gilson
No chemical compound in the atmosphere has a worse reputation than CO2, thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by advocates of government control and energy production. The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science. -- William Happer
In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe. This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control." -- Bob Barr
At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes explicit the movement's aims: They're anarchists for statism, wild free-spirited youth demanding more and more total government control of every aspect of life - just so long as it respects the fundamental human right to sloth. -- Mark Steyn
I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation's ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives. In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we remain a free market nation. -- Ted Cruz
All systems are capitalist. It's just a matter of who owns and controls the capital -- ancient king, dictator, or private individual. We should properly be looking at the contrast between a free market system where individuals have the right to live like kings if they have the ability to earn that right and government control of the market system such as we find today in socialist nations. -- Ronald Reagan
Who controls the issuance of money controls the government! -- Nathan Meyer Rothschild
We're going to have to control the spending of government. -- Kevin McCarthy
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. -- Benjamin Tucker
Thank God for some Republican control of one branch of the government. -- Lindsey Graham
Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea. -- David Price
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. -- John Adams
Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people. -- Luke Scott
The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation. -- Kim Dotcom
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The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. -- Malcolm X
Nothing for the Left, nothing the government does is ever about its superficial reason; it's only and always about expanding government power and control over you. -- Monica Crowley
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. -- Muqtada al Sadr
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. -- James Madison
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. -- Alexander Hamilton
The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control. -- Salman Khurshid
One must always keep one's government under control. -- Joe Wilson
Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control. -- Ronald Reagan
Either you will control your government, or government will control you. -- Ronald Reagan
The government can indefinitely control both short-term and long-term interest rates. -- Seth Klarman
Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it. -- William J. Clinton
A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources. -- B. F. Skinner
The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control. -- Martin McGuinness
No government can continue good, but under the control of the people. -- Thomas Jefferson
ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them. -- Thomas Jefferson
it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people. -- Winston Churchill
Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people. -- Ronald Reagan
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy. -- George Carlin
Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands. -- Robert D. Kaplan
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. -- Thurgood Marshall
While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business, -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month. -- Scott McCallum
[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government. -- James Madison
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government. -- Robert Kennedy
All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet. -- Rupert Murdoch
Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government. -- Sun Myung Moon
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand. -- Benjamin Disraeli
In Washington, we've seen enough tax hikes, government takeovers, bailouts, and other big government solutions under Speaker Pelosi's control. -- Kevin McCarthy
I see a government completely out of control, and money is number one. Integrity isn't even on the map. -- Neil Young
I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital. -- Michael Foot
Maryland needs someone in Congress who will fight to create jobs, stop out-of-control government spending and defend small businesses. -- Andrew P. Harris
The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control. -- Jethro Tull
The greatest danger facing our nation isn't terrorism, global warming or the energy crisis. It is out-of-control, unbridled government spending. -- R. Lee Wrights
There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity. -- Graham Cooke
You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government. -- Margaret Thatcher
You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600. -- Peter McWilliams
It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control? -- Assata Shakur
I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail. -- T. Boone Pickens
When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself. -- Stefan Molyneux
The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion. -- Philip Schaff
Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control. Here's Love Connection. Watch this and get fat and stupid. -- Bill Hicks
The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control. -- Millard Fillmore
The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism... -- Thomas Jefferson
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily. -- Maynard James Keenan
Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget. -- E.C. Riegel
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. -- Ted Nugent
What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue. -- Kevin McCarthy
A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. -- James Madison
Smaller government, more individual responsibility, more individual control creates more Republicans. More state power and ownership and control and top-down decision-making creates more Democrats. -- Grover Norquist
The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery. -- Eugene V. Debs
Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately. -- Jan Egeland
We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant. -- Charley Reese
We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it. -- Merle Haggard
The Beijing government avidly asserts its control over matters of reincarnation as a way of securing the loyalty and political complexion of influential Tibetan figures. -- Evan Osnos
We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
It is the responsibility of Afghanistan's new government to gain better control over the country's administration and to resolutely fight the drug trade and corruption. -- Anders Fogh Rasmussen
There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power... -- Joseph Sobran
Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens. -- Jesse Ventura
The number of realists who are betting that both the 'economy gets healthy soon' and this government gets spending under control is a tiny group, indeed. -- Bob Beauprez
Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill. -- Helen Prejean
The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online. -- Dennis Hastert
Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government. -- John Stuart Mill
They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine. -- Hutton Gibson
A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people, ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy -- Bob Dole
Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people. -- John T. Flynn
I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money. -- Saxby Chambliss
The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens. -- Josh Jones

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