->'''Jubal Harshaw:''' Well, who do you think did it?\\
'''Jill:''' We ''know'' who did it, the government!\\
'''Jubal:''' Jill, "the government" is several million people. You'll have to be a little more precise.
-->-- ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand''

->'''Sir Humphrey Appleby:''' Surveillance is an indispensable weapon in the battle against organized crime.\\
'''James Hacker:''' You're not describing politicians as organized crime?\\
'''Sir Humphrey:''' No... well, disorganized crime too, of course.
-->-- ''Series/YesMinister'', "The Death List"

->''"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned."''
-->-- '''Shepherd Book''', ''Series/{{Firefly}}''

->''"You speak of 'the government' as if it were a single, monolithic beast, with countless hands but only a single brain controlling them. Turn that vision around, Admiral. Perhaps you should consider how things would be if the government was in fact a creature with a single tremendous hand, but many brains trying to direct that hand in its powerful but clumsy efforts to do something, anything."''
-->-- '''Emissary Rione''', ''Literature/TheLostFleet''

->''"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."''
-->-- '''Creator/{{Voltaire}}'''

->''"Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is governed?"''
-->-- '''[[UsefulNotes/ThePope Pope Julius III]]'''

->''"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan'''

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