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

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.

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,...

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...

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.

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.

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.

In any government, interests precede truth.

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...

…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...

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

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

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...

There isn’t a whole lot of government self-regulation over privacy.

The prerogative of the return of former President Taylor remains that of the Liberian people and government.

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...

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

One single object…[will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government.(A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.)

We’re looking to identify funds if we can. We’re also looking at other resources to assist the government in making this a reality, … At this point, we don’t have a particular source of funding for that but we’re still looking if we could help in finding [another] way to assist.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

We’re calling on the visiting Japanese ministers to pressure their government into stopping whaling in the Southern Ocean.

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

confident that the positive tone from Commission corresponds to the political will of the heads of state and government of the EU.

But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of any other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than the deeds of the parent who drained the spirit from his child? The vampire may foster quickened heartbeats and levitated hair. But is he worse than the parent who gave to society a...

Roosevelt spoke eloquently, in his penetrating tenor, of those ‘who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life . . . I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished,’ he told the audience, ‘. . . The test of our...

Historical perspectives or outlooks represented in textbooks should not be identified as those of the Japanese government.

You must realize…that the men of the Valley have built their houses and brought up their families without help from others, without a word from the Government. Their lives have been ordered from birth by the Bible. From it they took their instructions. They had no other guidance, and no other law. If it has...

These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen — a society...

Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the shoulder of everyone who reads. The purchase of a book or pamphlet today may result in a subpoena tomorrow. Fear...

the spirit that prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere”?

Uniformity in the common law, consisting of broad principles like the “reasonable person” standard, generally permits adjustment for the circumstances. This type of uniform principle is almost synonymous with fairness. Uniform application of a detailed rule, on the other hand, will almost always favor one group over another. p. 34

Governments don’t reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

The protest vote or ‘no-votes’ will be a question for us as we ponder our next move. The government wants to be a government for the entire country, not just part of the country.

The Government, police and supporters groups are working hard with the German authorities to make the World Cup a safe and trouble free tournament.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man’s age-old dream — the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order –or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism....

To me, patriotism means dedication to the principles on which the country was founded and a willingness to stand firm and fight for these principles regardless of what the government says or does

As government expands, liberty contracts.

The COUNTRY is controlled by LAWS>LAWS are controlled by POLITICIANS>POLITICIANS are controlled by VOTERS>VOTERS are controlled by PUBLIC OPINION>PUBLIC OPINION is controlled by the MEDIA (News, Hollywood, Internet…) & EDUCATIONso. whoever controls MEDIA & EDUCATION, controls the COUNTRY.

Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.

The less government we have the better.