Government : (58) " In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes. " - P. J. O'Rourke " Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. " - William Lyon Mackenzie King " In Congress, I represent South Central Kansas, home to McConnell Air Force Base. " - Mike Pompeo " I think more and more business leaders are becoming aware of the impact of the government in their success. " - Luther Strange " These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost. " - Norm Dicks " The really basic stuff that fuels 30-year job booms almost always comes from government research, stuff like biotech, the transistor, the Internet. The idea that private capital can handle the early spade work is a joke. " - Glenn Kelman " We have built a government so large and so expensive here in Washington that not even the richest economy in the history of mankind can afford it. That’s how big it’s gotten. " - Marco Rubio " I understand how bureaucracies work. And that’s important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy. " - Carly Fiorina " I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. " - John Maynard Keynes " I don’t think we should run government based on economists’ predictions. " - John Fleming