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...

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 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.

Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political system…The central feature of the American constitutional system—the separation of powers—exacerbates many of these problems. The governments of the US were not designed to be efficient or powerful, but...

To Trazada’s surprise the Generalissimo laughed, a great subterranean rumbling that shook his gigantic frame like an earthquake. ‘Remedios, mia pobre Remedios, they are ignorant. They are afraid. They are stupid and superstitious. Why, most of them think that television is witchcraft and that because they are allowed to vote they have control over the...

He’s always complaining about the fucking recession and how the government is working against people like him. He calls himself working class, which I think is a bit ironic since he doesn’t work.

One of the most productive ways a government can spend money on the people is by building more prisons. That’s what makes the US so great. That’s what freedom is all about.

the government should take measures for an honest investigation to determine how failures doubled the casualties.

This in my view and the view of the Iraqi government has set a bad precedent and sent all the wrong messages, … Terrorists should not be rewarded. Otherwise, this could repeat itself.

We look like we’re just crybabies, … And the world out there is not sympathetic to government scientists who make more money than the vice president of the United States. Let’s get real.

Forgoing privacy in a quest for absolute safety is as harmful to a healthy psyche and life of an individual as it is to a healthy political culture. For the individual, safety first means a life of paralysis and fear, never entering a car or airplane, never engaging in an activity that entails risk, never...

The Fed’s cutting rates more than other banks are cutting rates, the United States is cutting taxes more than other governments are able to and is getting more stimulus from defense spending, … We won’t see an upswing in the global economy until 2003. The United States will do better before then.

They talked about a realignment of the government. But it looks like it’s a total arraignment of the government.

Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.

In response to my question about how we might rein in the empire, he said, “That’s why I’m meeting with you. Only you in the United States can change it. Your government created this problem and your people must solve it. You’ve got to insist that Washington honor its commitment to democracy, even when deomcratically...

If the government plans to run roughshod over the legislative process to push through something that does not have support, then I think Albertans will speak loudly.

Government in its infancy had no regular and permanent form. For want of a sufficient fund of philosophy and experience, men could see no further than the present inconveniences, and never thought of providing remedies for future ones, but in proportion as they arose.

That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the...

The government is committed to deepening ties with North Asia — building on mature links with Japan, expanding ties with China and continuing support for peaceful outcomes on the Korean Peninsula.

We are complying and cooperating with the government to provide them with any information they need and request. This is a very narrow legal request and we believe there are no legal issues here that should be of any concern, but we are working to address any concerns the government may have.

Many people are seeking, at this very moment, to shelter themselves under the wing of the federal eagle; imagining, I presume, that her bosom has all the softness and snugness of an eider-down pillow. But she has no great tenderness, even in her best of moods, and, sooner or later, –oftener sooner than late,– is...

The secretary-general also welcomes the prime minister’s statement that such practices are completely contrary to Iraqi government policy.

The Russian government not only acted corruptly, not only built up a new oligarchy of billionaires out of nothing, basically, but also gave away its most valuable financial assets-its ownership of the huge natural resource sector in Russia.

It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation,...

These statistics show that the policies implemented by the Government and programmes funded and delivered by Defra, like the agri-environment schemes that now cover over 1.2 million hectares, are having an encouraging effect on biodiversity in England,

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

Until now, we haven’t asked anyone to form the government. We are carrying on contacts with all factions, and of course we will ask the party that won the majority to form the government.

The vast majority of Chinese air-to-air missile sales are to its own government, and those that are exported have little effect on the overall market. Japan is forbidden to export weapons and Taiwan has yet to sell an air-to-air missile to a foreign customer.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

This is the first official document on public involvement in the environmental sector, which will make government decisions in the sector more transparent and democratic.

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....

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.

Have you ever stopped to ponder the amount of blood spilt, the volume of tears shed, the degree of pain and anguish endured, the number of noble men and women lost in battle so that we as individuals might have a say in governing our country? Honor the lives sacrificed for your freedoms. Vote.

Blessed are the peacemakers? Billed are the warmongers, and then you shall have peace.

When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.

You are dealing with national security. Anything labeled a national security issie is taken out from the system. There is no due process, no lawyers. They may do with us what they wish. Fear is a government’s greatest weapon. With it, they can convince a people that they need to abandon their freedom. In exchange,...

The United States government has to do more.

And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all harm, provide fairly distributed economic security, and improve individual moral behavior. If the government is granted a monopoly on the use of force to achieve these goals, history shows that power is always...

Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that’s crashing.

They just have great cards. They’ve got all three branches of government. They’ve got the bully pulpit.

the story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it.

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

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...

…legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this...

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

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

It is easy to rule over the good.

The opposition proposal did not receive a positive response from the government. This means the government is not sincere about political reforms.

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.