Intrusive Government Quotes

#1. I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't want to give that up. Everything else is just a bonus and often a distraction from the writing, reading, and traveling that gives me the most pleasure.

Pankaj Mishra

#2. Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.

George Carlin

#3. Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller, less intrusive government and be willing to enjoy fewer government programs.

Oliver DeMille

#4. Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.

Rick Perry

#5. Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.

Laozi

#6. If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.

Thomas Sowell

#7. I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

Joe Biden

#8. If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.

Chuck Klosterman

#9. The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

Idries Shah

#10. The Founding Fathers envisioned a federal government that trusts its people with their money and freedom, outlining this limited, non-intrusive federal government in ... the Constitution, leaving the other powers to people ... or to the states.

Milton Friedman

#11. He found all the people he met repulsive - their faces, their manner of walking, their movements were repulsive to him. He reflected that if anyone had said anything to him he would quite simply have spat at that person, or bitten him ... - Raskolnikov (Crime and Punishment)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. Instead of praying: 'Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,' try: 'Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.'

Marianne Williamson

#13. Having the tattoo itself is not really for the end result for me. I like having them done.

Lena Headey

#14. Washington politicians think that government can make better decisions than you and me. But we know better. We know it's smaller, less intrusive government that will lead to real economic prosperity. We know it's business-friendly policies, not more red tape, that will create real growth.

Brad Wenstrup

#15. Cloud bounded along the earth like a ball

Garrett P. Serviss

#16. Look for a candidate who can do to the electorate what corporations are learning to do, so Government - or, better, Big Government, Big Brother, Intrusive Government - becomes the image against which this candidate defines himself. Though

David Foster Wallace

#17. There's a monumental difference in believing in God and believing God.

Andy Stanley

#18. Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

P. J. O'Rourke

#19. Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through ... That is why people read: to have experiences.

Bonnie Friedman

#20. Intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When

Matt Taibbi

#21. I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive.

Tim Cook

#22. It's easy to lose sight of God when life is sweet and easy, but there is something awesome about despair, and it is the closeness of God when we are at our weakest.

Kristin Armstrong