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...

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O’Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O’Brien: You do not exist.

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

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...

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...

I removed all the doors to our love, so you can’t lock yourself away from me. But I didn’t stop there. I also replaced the doors with metal detectors, so I could fondle you more...

Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts.

One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would be a well-established truth in need of no further defense.

When individuals combine in a joint effort to realize ends the have in common, the organizations, like the state, that they form for this purpose are given their own system of ends and their own...

We have been united in government, and we will be even more so in opposition.

The proposal to quit voting is basically revolutionary; it amounts to a shifting of power from one group to another, which is the essence of revolution. As soon as the nonvoting movement got up steam,...

The government must stop further evictions and be more flexible in allowing shelter and other programs for those affected. It must ensure that beneficiaries are assisted solely on the basis of need.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This...

I eat cereal with a hammer, because I operate with a government-level efficiency. Let’s build a smarter tomorrow—with a spoon.

If voters want bigger government, sooner or later they’re going to return to the genuine article, and that’s the Democratic Party,

I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

I think what happened unfortunately is there is no policy in the U.S. government to allow these scientists to come to the U.S.. … There is no plea-bargain policy.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.

We have no illusions about what somebody like Sharon or any government professional can do without citizens deepening and expanding this public peace process of human relationships.

In 1891 the Brazilian Minister of Finance decreed the abolition of history; he ordered the destruction of every document which dealt in any way with slavery or the slave trade; a nation-wide burning of the...

We were so impressed with his background — not only in government, but as a surgeon, and his interest in becoming connected to the community.

The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings…Our way of life...

Liberty is not about class war, income war, race war, national war, a war between the sexes, or any other conflict apart from the core conflict between individuals and those who would seek power and...

But I think this is an area where pressure from the public is having an impact on what our government is doing.

This government was highly touched by this unfortunate incident, which claimed such a number of lives. The nation is in a state of grief and a state of mourning.

Let us fool ourselves no longer. At the very moment Western nations, threw off the ancient regime of absolute government, operating under a once-divine king, they were restoring this same system in a far more...

Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.

People will always try to scare you into things. Scare you away from things. Scare you into not wanting things you can’t help wanting. You can’t be afraid.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

If a legitimate government emerges that is broadly seen as being representative of Sunni, Shia and Kurdish interests, I think there is no reason to suppose that we can’t bring force levels down in the...

I was ecstatic when they re-named “French fries” as “freedom fries.” Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

I pledge to you the people, your government will not allow this desperate and irresponsible attempt to undermine the peace process and economic prosperity of the people to succeed,

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.

Be careful what you say…you might end up in my next book!

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

You have to be alarmed at the idea that the government can come in and say, ‘I want you to give me your statistical data.’ This could be the first step on the way for...

backseat driver” syndrome.

If you do not question everything, you may never find the true answer, you will only find the answer everyone wants to believe.That it called being another sheep in the herd, that is why the...

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It’s just ganging up against the weird kid, and I’m always the weird kid.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they’re sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system’s first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not...

In the short and medium term, there’s no crude oil problem because the U.S. government will release stocks and IEA will release stocks to cover that shortfall.

We see this expanded involvement with the government marketplace as a strong affirmation of the importance of a comprehensive vulnerability management solution, particularly when dealing with mission-critical information. We are honored to serve this important...

If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination, our struggle for national liberation to establish self-government in our homeland.

It prompts speculation that perhaps the government was using information that was illegally obtained.

the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security… In fact the...

One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.

We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we’re their government. And people trust their government.