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Good government is good politics. -- Richard J. Daley
The essence of good government is trust. -- Kathleen Sebelius
Good ideas are the backbone of good government. -- Brian Schweitzer
Good government is the outcome of private virtue. -- John Jay Chapman
Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government. -- Anthony Albanese
If you present good government, then elections look after themselves. -- Jay Weatherill
Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system. -- Imran Khan
That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil. -- Lyn Nofziger
What good fortune for governments that the people do not think. -- Adolf Hitler
Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government. -- Lincoln Steffens
I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans. -- Danica Patrick
Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever. -- Penn Jillette
To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government. -- James L. Petigru
Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government. -- Elizabeth I
We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term. -- Clare Short
When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home. -- Rick Perry
Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government. -- William Weld
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. -- Milton Friedman
Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests. -- James Bovard
If men be good, government cannot be bad. -- William Penn
There's never been a good government. -- Emma Goldman
Good government is no substitute for self-government. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All good government must begin at home. -- Hugh Reginald Haweis
Good government has to mean less government. -- John Stossel
Not federal government's job to do good deeds. -- Jim DeMint
Sometimes there are no good choices for government. -- Jason Kenney
All prejudices are equally fatal to good government. -- Anthony Eden
There is no right government except good government. -- George Santayana
Money will not purchase character or good government. -- Calvin Coolidge
Government exists only for the good of the governed. -- Pythagoras
All forms of government are pernicious, including good government. -- Edward Abbey
A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth. -- Thomas Jefferson
Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system -- Imran Khan
Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies. -- James Cook
No government can continue good, but under the control of the people. -- Thomas Jefferson
Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. -- William E. Gladstone
Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government. -- Aristotle
In truth, government has been good to Wall Street and big business. -- Robert Reich
Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves. -- Henry Campbell-Bannerman
No Taxes. Let's just tip the government 15% if they do a good job. -- Pat Paulsen
It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. -- Will Rogers
Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job. -- Tony Abbott
A good government is one with many information channels, those that give real-time information. -- Narendra Modi
The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright. -- Joyce Cary
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good. -- Rufus Choate
I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government. -- Walter Lippmann
Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program. -- Aaron Schock
When government is... bailing out banks... we have every good reason to be alarmed. -- Mitt Romney
If the government did a good job of publicizing this information, my products wouldn't sell. -- Matthew Lesko
But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas. -- Jack Markell
There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be. -- Emma Goldman
No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people. -- Cornelius Nepos
The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers. -- Rick Warren
It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small. -- Joel Miller
Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so. -- Oscar Wilde
You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones. -- Bob Riley
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it. -- William Ralph Inge
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it. -- William Ralph Inge
Our government is a gift from God, who calls us to be good stewards of it. -- John Shimkus
You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones -- Bob Riley
When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government. -- Bob Dole
As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government. -- Dwight Morrow
Reform' is pillage and plunder if you're against it, and it's good government if you're for it. -- Pete Laney
Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well. -- Matthew Lesko
It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for. -- Will Rogers
Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good. -- Joel Miller
We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care. -- Rick Perry
There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government. -- Jesse Ventura
I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people. -- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
The greatest source of America's generosity is not our government; it's the good heart of the American people. -- George W. Bush
I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected. -- Thomas Jefferson
No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism. -- Thomas Jefferson
The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good. -- Jonah Goldberg
Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government. -- Manmohan Singh
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. -- Donald Trump
Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score. -- Rita Mae Brown
I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government. -- Heather Brooke
In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it. -- Jarvis Cocker
If there's any literary ability in a feller, getting fired out of a good government job will bring it out. -- Kin Hubbard
In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense. -- Theodore Roosevelt
There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives. -- Os Guinness
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. -- Timothy McVeigh
My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work. -- Tony Campolo
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. -- Thomas Jefferson
For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government. -- Robert Payne
There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted. -- Confucius
[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones. -- Polybius
It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free. -- William Weld
I don't believe UPA government did nothing; they did whatever they could and they deserve appreciation for whatever good they did. -- Narendra Modi
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea. -- Charlotte Bunch
If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot. -- Che Guevara
The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable. -- Henry David Thoreau
The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality. -- Fisher Ames
It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good. -- Leonard Woolf
It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term. -- Peter Mandelson
I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience... but for a criminal government. -- Walter Model
I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it? -- Pat Paulsen
For the Mexican people, for the Mexican government, the very good relationship with the United States of America is, of course, essential. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government. -- Henry David Thoreau
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else. -- Tom Clancy
Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less. -- Charles Kennedy
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. -- Benjamin Franklin
Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. -- Lord Acton
Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged. -- Thomas Jefferson
We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country. -- Van Jones
Government should be a floor upon which the good of the people flourishes, not a ceiling upon which people bump their heads! -- Todd Stocker
Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people -- Penn Jillette
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes. -- Ray Stannard Baker
The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values. -- Li Hongzhi
One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it. -- Huey Long
Hillary Clinton: putting big government spending financed by the Chinese ahead of good-paying jobs for middle-class Americans. Is she guilty or not guilty? -- Chris Christie
The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good. -- Joel Miller
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation. -- Thomas Francis Meagher

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