Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.