Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that the United States government has no business delivering mail.

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-earning employees, the government is something to be avoided, an overwhelming, all-powerful entity whose attentions usually presage some kind of financial setback, if not complete ruin. In the grifter world, however, government is a slavish lapdog that the financial companies that will be the major players in this book use as a tool for making money.