Quotes about govern
government immoral
Government is essentially immoral. Herbert Spencer
government risk reign
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
government years race
Over the course of more than 200 years, it has found a right to equal education regardless of race. It has guaranteed an attorney and a fair trial to all Americans, rich and poor alike. It has allowed women to keep private medical decisions private. And it has allowed Americans to speak, vote and worship without interference from their government. Herb Kohl
government wish literature
The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much. Henry David Thoreau
government rats lasts
The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.
government play roles
NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women. Jenny Shipley
government law america
The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "God Bless America." No, no, no, God d*mn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God d*mn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God d*mn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme. Jeremiah Wright
government democracy election
I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term. Jim Bolger
government choices entitlement
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals. Jesse Helms
government america risk
Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk. Jesse Jackson
government alternatives neighbor
A neighbor is a far better and cheaper alternative to government services. Jennifer Pahlka
government needs cant
We cant do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.
government people given
Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if youre one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.
government political election
We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.
government self top-down
He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the state level. The most inspiring part of his legacy to me is his belief in the imperative and duty of self-education on behalf of citizens. Jeffrey Rosen
government surveillance-cameras shopping
Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums, would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.
government
Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to travel. Jeff Flake
government office information
Some information has to remain in the privy of the office of the Prime Minister and the ministers for the proper administration of government. Jean Chretien
government leader unions
A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.
government people community
Canadian federalism is more than a form of government. It's also a system of values that allows different people in diverse communities to live and work together in harmony for the good of all.
government giving purpose
It is not the government's purpose to make a profit the way a company does, because a company doesn't have to give a damn about the unemployed poor or provide services that are non-commercial by definition.
government new-orleans hurricanes
Hurricane [Katrina] hit the Gulf Coast and destroyed much of the Gulf Coast - that was an act of God ... Now what happened to New Orleans, that was a complete failure of the federal government. Complete negligence by the feds. James Carville
government crooks want
Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.
government diversity people
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. James A. Garfield
government people employment
It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.
government reign stills
God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
government judging done
The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time. Jacques Verges
government top-down support
There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really top down solutions that require government-to-government support and aid. Jacqueline Novogratz
government people crowds
Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.
government self way
It would have been very alarming - morally, and in other ways too - if an attack of that nature, the 11 September attacks, had not aroused in us and in our governments and societies the spirit of self-defence. If that had not been one of the responses it seems to me there would have been very grave cause for concern. Christopher Hitchens
government tea half
If I had half a chance, I'd put acid in the Government's tea. George Harrison
government people want
Authentic journalism is telling people something that the government doesn't want them to know. Gary Webb
government political agendas
Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong. Gary Ackerman