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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

…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...

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.

It’s a terrorist attack to intimidate people working with the government side.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

Everything is now stacked in favor of the government. You’re going to see pictures of New York City and the Pentagon you’ve never seen before, hear from survivors, officials in New York about the impact....

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.

People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

The Satanism Scare” (Ruben, 1994). And why do accounts like the ones given by the 37 ritually abused adults in the Young et al. (1991) study, and the 14 ritually abused families in the Kelly...

As to supporting his government, I fought for 10 years to put this Government in place. I will continue to support even more now that I?m out of the Cabinet.

Wananchi wataendelea kuwepo hata kama serikali haitakuwepo. Serikali haiwezi kuwashinda wananchi. Sauti ya umma ni sauti ya Mungu. Serikali haiwezi kumshinda Mungu.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has...

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

Somebody tell Uncle Sam the ultimate stimulus package is a bottle of Viagra.

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara – one of the great prophets of Christian...

I hope to form a government, which will have the broadest possible support, as quickly as possible.

The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left.

Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite...

With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made “legal.” Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

Frankly, that’s where we are today. In the last five years, this government has spent $1 billion to renovate schools. And yet you saw witness after witness come before us today saying the bathrooms at...

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

Love is like a corn-dog popsicle, and I’m on the Most Wanted list. Unfortunately it’s by the government, specifically the FDA, and not by women.

The government has basically chased away all the people in that town. Golo is a ghost town. Everybody has left.

It is time for the government to declassify records that are more than 25 years old and to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of this phenomenon.

A man’s natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime; whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself...

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly...

Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be their power to take away politicians’ jobs… When the government sees its people...

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

This was not uncommon in government-run operations, where a request that someone do their job often induced a catatonic state that might last anywhere from a couple of minutes to an hour.

You want to make sure that we do no harm to those people who depend on needed government services that have no other means by which to obtain them, … There has to be a...

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.