Quotes about government
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
government decision care
I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either. Gary Bauer
government ideas return
Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
government gold needs
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world. Garet Garrett
government long people
If people cannot limit government they will not for long be free.
government self people
No government can provide social security. It is not in the nature of government to be able to provide anything. Government itself is not self-supporting. It lives by taxation. Therefore, since it cannot provide for itself but by taking toll of what the people produce, how can it provide social security for the people?
government hands people
Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity. Either one must forbid the other or one will destroy the other. That we know. Yet never has the choice been put to a vote of the people.
government impulse
There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.
government enemy natural
Government is the natural enemy of freedom.
government names united-states
If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.
government decree diets
The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree. Fritz Sauckel
government opponents dramatic
It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions. Hannah Arendt
government tyrants political
the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can represent grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.
government people politics
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments. Guy de Maupassant
government support religion
Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments. Gouverneur Morris
government dominion spheres
The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did...they always will. They will have the same effect here as elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper spheres.
government america people
The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy to provoke, a diversion. This is the mentality of tenth-rate people who are in politics because corporate America likes them. They are malleable. They give them contracts to build missile shields that will never work. It's deeply corrupt. Gore Vidal
government giving hatred
The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological ... at one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.
government class people
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
government people done
Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.
government liberty libertarian
Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)
government decision gains
When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the federal government arbitrarily places one of those factors over others, it makes consumers worse off. Gina McCarthy
government waiting godot
Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot. Gianfranco Fini
government results
Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature. Giambattista Vico
government iran two
There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system. Hassan Rouhani
government world resolution
There should be resolutions adopted in top international institutions, which are binding on all states and governments in the world, to forbid the defamation of religions. Hassan Nasrallah
government cities chicago
I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government. Harold Washington