My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

The government belongs to the poor people of the country. We are custodian of people’s hope. For whom should the government be? For educated people or few others. Government should be for the poor. If rich want to educate their children, they can send anywhere. If rich fall ill, hundreds of doctors are at service....

What I tried to make clear in Good Calories, Bad Calories was that nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the Second World War with the evaporation of the European community of scientists and physicians that did pioneering work in those disciplines. It has since resisted all attempts to correct it. As a result,...

History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.

The American flag doesn’t give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It’s when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed fingers, where we see the stretch of red-blood lines of man that fought for this land. The purity of white...

He was an absolutist on protection of the press’ right to criticize government,

We expect to see the commercial systems division posting improved results going forward, whilst the Government Systems divisions continues to defy skeptics.

The commitments that are made are significant and it’s going to be very, very difficult for any government to retreat from those commitments here,

It’s certainly consistent with government policy and consistent with Australian federal police guidelines we have in relation to dealing in transnational crime matters where the death penalty may exist,

Probably, the government does not want to have a discussion on these issues before the visit of (US President) George Bush and the BJP also doesn’t want to be seen supporting the government’s line on the matter. If this is true, then it is really very unfortunate.

It is a false and dangerous situation which bases public power on private want, and roots the grandeur of the State in the suffering of the individual. It is a badly constituted grandeur which combines all the material elements, and into which no moral element enters.

This is part of an ongoing series of consultations we have had with the Russian government and we have a very broad and deep and important agenda, … I am sure the topic of Bosnia will come up. Russia and the United States are working closely together to try to bring peace to the area....

So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.

Kenyans should rise and stop this draconian measures by a dictatorship government.

That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.

The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.

A mere enumeration of government activity is evidence — often the sole evidence offered — of “inadequate” nongovernment institutions, whose “inability” to cope with problems “obviously” required state intervention. Government is depicted as acting not in response to its own political incentives and constraints but because it is compelled to do so by concern for...

All you need is the will and the skill

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

Price controls almost invariably produce black markets, where prices are not only higher than the legally permitted prices, but also higher than they would be in a free market, since the legal risks must also be compensated. While small-scale black markets may function in secrecy, large-scale black markets usually require bribes to officials to look...

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it’s not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

One glance at any government budget anywhere in the world tells the story—the money is always in place, already allocated, the motive everywhere is fear, the more immediate the fear, the higher the multiples.

You are constantly being trained to be heroic only in the service of your masters – only in slaughter and sacrifice and subjugation. But there is no heroism in serving your masters. Real heroism is questioning why you have masters at all.All these stories, all these fantasies, all these superpowers – are designed to steal...

It’s time to stop playing around with the organizational charts and to start focusing on government, at all levels, that are preparing for this storm season.

As mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

That government is best which governs least.

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

General assumptions often lead to erroneous conclusions, but one cannot go far wrong in always assuming that whatever one’s government is saying is a lie.

We give military aid to the Indonesian government, we give economic aid through international monetary organizations to Indonesia. We should be prepared to pull all of that.

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn’t do it alone.

It’s all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks....

Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions...

It’s pretty clear where the American public is on this issue — they want the border fixed. They want the government to do something about employers who hire illegal workers. I believe that’s essentially where the Republican Party is.

Our government would like to see the passage of the Russian subsoil law, which will clarify the rules and the laws for investment in the energy area,

Suppose they felt that the rescue operations of the government, whether it’s state, local or federal, was being handled in an inept way, or evacuees are being mistreated. Does that give them a right to bar the media, who may want to expose that?

In any government, interests precede truth.

…it is the public sector I find more interesting, because governments and other non-market institutions have long suffered from the innovation malaise of top-heavy bureaucracies. Today, these institutions have an opportunity to fundamentally alter the way they cultivate and promote good ideas. The more the government thinks of itself as an open platform instead of...

It is critical that the newly elected leaders of Iraq do their part by forming a government of national unity with a good program and competent ministers as soon as possible.

I believe that if we get — when we get — the national unity government, when we have ministries that are run by competent ministers, and as we get into the next phase of our Sunni outreach … I see a set of circumstances, frankly, that would allow for a significant withdrawal of our forces.

It’s to the Capitol’s advantage to have us divided among ourselves.Another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to plant hatred between the starving workers [of the Seam] and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another.

We must judge of a form of government by it’s general tendency, not by happy accidents

If Canadians wanted a majority government they would have had a majority government. The Liberals have done nothing, achieved nothing, they’re going nowhere and they’re trying to blame other people.

The provisions that are a problem are those that minimize judicial scrutiny of searches and surveillance and that increase government secrecy,

With the mediation help by the Norwegian government, I believe this process will succeed this time.

Whenever governments wanted to achieve some end, often involving population growth, they restricted access to birth control and/or criminalized birth control unless, of course, the population growth concerned the poor, in which case, contraception was enthusiastically promoted. Historically, society has only wanted the “right kind of people” to have a right to life. We shouldn’t...

Vimes had once discussed the Ephebian idea of ‘democracy’ with Carrot, and had been rather interested in the idea that everyone had a vote until he found out that while he, Vimes, would have a vote, there was no way in the rules that anyone could prevent Nobby Nobbs from having one as well. Vimes...

The approach adopted by the government to muzzle the press must be resisted by all Kenyans.

The fact is, the primary way that Ottawa and Washington deal with Native people is to ignore us. They know that the court system favors the powerful and the wealthy and the influential, and that, if we buy into the notion of an impartial justice system, tribes and bands can be forced through a long,...

In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else’s mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one’s own place and economy.In such a society, also, our...