Timothy Noah Government Quotations

The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.

Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands.

If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.'

I recognize that Republicans see a moral difference between a dollar taken away from a millionaire in government benefits and a dollar taken away from a millionaire in taxes.

Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.

In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama.

A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.

An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government.

The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago.

What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for.

The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.

The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.