Quotes about govern
government order silence
Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right to literally purchase the copyright of a citizen's potential contribution to society. In a democracy they should not have the legal right to silence the quasi-totality of the functioning élite in order to satisfy a managerial taste for control and secrecy. John Ralston Saul
government victory dresses
Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.
government ideas people
Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed by the people who went on to become part of the Fascist experience: (1) shift power directly to economic and social interest groups; (2) push entrepreneurial initiative in areas normally reserved for public bodies; (3) obliterate the boundaries between public and private interest -- that is, challenge the idea of the public interest. This sounds like the official program of most contemporary Western governments.
government tone moral
Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.
government race world
All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it James Russell Lowell
government size reducing
But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government James Q. Wilson
government economy states
We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls. James Goldsmith
government government-employees employee
As a government employee, you can't testify against the government. James Hansen
government views hands
I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the views of the United States Government as to some of the problems confronting us. James F. Byrnes
government earth immortality
The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.
government trying pressure
A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward. Laura Chinchilla
government law obamacare
American taxpayers will be forced to foot the bill for the overwhelming costs of amnesty. Under current law, once 11 million illegal immigrants receive probationary status, they will immediately have access to federal benefits like Social Security and Obamacare coverage. If we thought we had a problem with government spending before, just wait. Lamar S. Smith
government special development
It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar. Lalu Prasad Yadav
government dwelling half
For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
government suffering fool
Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all. Lester B. Pearson
government evil unlimited
The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power. Friedrich August von Hayek
government deception management
The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.
government mind doe
Conservatives are inclined to use the powers of government to prevent change or to limit its rate to whatever appeals to the more timid mind. In looking forward, they lack the faith in the spontaneous forces of adjustment which makes the liberal accept changes without apprehension, even though he does not know how the necessary adaptations will be brought about.
government libertarian dictator
Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.
government america long
As long term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period. [...] Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. My personal impression - and this is valid for South America - is that in Chile, for example, we will witness a transition from a dictatorial government to a liberal government.
government political economic
You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.
government issues people
With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.
government democracy way
It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.
government libertarian scum
In government, the scum rises to the top.
government giving democracy
By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.
government involvement private-sector
I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector. Frederick W. Smith
government arena century
Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.
government air effort
I paid every effort to seek deregulation throughout FEDEX's start-up and expansion periods, because the biggest impediment to our growth was the government regulations that restricted new entry into the air cargo market.
government people trying
It is impossible to manage the health care requirements of tens of millions of American citizens at the federal level. It is impossible to manage all of the permutations of people's economic aspirations and lives through a complex tax code. It is impossible to try to second-guess the market. It is impossible, from a managerial standpoint, for the federal government to do the things it is trying to do today.
government realizing public-service
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service, Franklin D. Roosevelt
government democracy constitution-of-the-united-states
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
government body groups
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
government order liberty
Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.