Government We need to get rid of the 16th amendment, and return to the original system that funds government with a variety of tariffs and duties. - Alan Keyes
The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed. - Alan Keyes
I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle. - Alan Keyes
Christ would not vote for Barack Obama, because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved. - Alan Keyes
Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God. - Alan Keyes
Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients. - Alan Keyes
The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes. - Alan Keyes
The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership. - Alexis Herman
I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime. - Dennis Kozlowski
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government. - Joseph Story
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. - Timothy McVeigh
However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. The real credit for our economic renewal belongs to the people of Alabama . - Bob Riley