Quote of the Day - Thomas Sowell Edition

(Y)ou can't depend on the government because the government is not some brooding presence in the sky. The government is an organization with its own interest which it will serve over and above whatever interest it is supposedly being set up to serve. -- Thomas Sowell, interviewed at Right Wing News

Correspondingly, Shepherd Book from Firefly, "War Stories" -

A government is a body of people, usually, notably ungoverned.