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• Giving money and power to governments is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
  -- P.J. O'Rourke...
• Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
  Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again....
• Government should spend our money like it was their own.
• The art of government consist in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens and giving it to another.
  -- Voltaire...
• What they said: What they meant: "I recommend this candidate with no qualifications whatsoever.
  (Yes, that about sums it up.) "The amount of mathematics she knows will surprise you....
• The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
  -- P. J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whore...
• Giving up...
• One thing is that, unlike any other Western democracy that I know of, this country has operated since its beginnings with a basic distrust of government.
  We are constituted not for efficient operation of government, but for minimizing the possibility of abuse of power....