The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge...

I am personally proud to fight for the cause of open government in the state of Texas,

For me, a website would be user friendly if it gave me a handjob. It’d be doubly impressive if it were also a porn site, or government regulation compliance site.

The road map is the best way for the Palestinian people. Any Palestinian government to be created must make it clear to the international community that it [road map] is its choice.

We are not ready in any way to allow a situation in which money transferred by the government of Israel will somehow end up in the control of murderous elements who want to harm Israeli...

Dr. Talbon was struck by another very important thing. It all hung together. The stories Cheryl told — even though it was upsetting to think people could do stuff like that — they were not...

Where the basis of the request comes from is that the government itself has revealed nothing about these initiatives. The objective here is to move beyond unnamed DOT sources to really make public on an...

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that’s because it is the most threatening to those in power.

His picture is here because he is the President and the President’s picture is in every government office and schoolroom,

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

I would do the same thing. I would let the government take him.

Don’t give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero’s facade you will find a human being who makes human...

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all...

The health care bill is nothing about health care- it’s about controlling the people.

This is excellent news. It’s good to have the government totally acknowledging the validity of the claim and joining us in it.

I think the Y2K success story to date is very much a testament to the government working in partnership with local governments, communities, corporations. I don’t think there were — there were very few pockets...

Remember one thing as South Africa prepares to go to the polls this week and the world grapples with the ascendancy of the African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma: South Africa is not Zimbabwe.In South...

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone – as opposed to an ethical one – you know something is wrong.

There is beauty and power in unity.We must be united in heart and mind.One world, one people.

The Chinese government, in handling such complicated international disputes, opposes the arbitrary use of sanctions or the threat of use of sanctions in the efforts to solve the question. It will only complicate the issue.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

But the government strongly wants this trial to continue in Iraq,

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

Commerce tends toward rewarding inclusion, broadness, and liberality. Tribal loyalties, ethnic and religious bigotries, and irrational prejudices are bad for business. The merchant class has been conventionally distrusted by tribalist leaders — from the ancient...

We can’t come up with a reason why this information is being withheld. The government won’t even acknowledge that the incident took place but we know that it did.

No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for...

For that, we are in contact with the Israeli side to start direct negotiations with the government that will soon be formed.

Protestants are sickened at the sight of terrorists at the heart of our government. We will do everything we can to expel this cancer from the body politic.

I’m happy only because I know it’s something that keeps the government in the circle,

Government is all show when it isn’t murder in the dark … or soldiers in the open.

You look at the relationship between 50 state sovereigns and the federal government, and the states always come out on the short end of the stick. They’ve consistently traded autonomy for cash, and they’ve consistently...

Conservatives and those on the right are usually willing to settle for thinking themselves correct on political issues; those on the left have always needed to feel not so much that they are correct but...

One of the (many) problems with government is not that power corrupts or even that it is magnetic to corruptible people; rather, it is that we have been conditioned to tolerate corruption in power, and...

Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as “armed teens”?

The priority for my government is that there will be development for everyone, equally.

They are using government vehicles and are being given GSU protection.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

If the President does not withdraw this idea for a Joint Mechanism, we will leave the government on June 16.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

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

Surely of all ‘rights of man’, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.

We hope that the Israeli government will take into account that the torpedoing of the peace process, of the collapse of the peace process, will really harm not only the Palestinians, but also the Israelis...

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...

The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.

When it comes to federal spending, George W. Bush is the boy who cant say no. In each of his three years at the helm, the president has warned Congress to restrain its spending appetites,...

Is that all, sir? Only we’ve got stuff to finish before our knocking-off time, you see, and if we stay late we have to make more money to pay our overtime, and if the lads...

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

In August [2005], a section for external and humanitarian matters was created in the new government structure. I was put in charge of that section, which included five or six ministries singled out in that...

It is your government which is seizing the people of Iraq and killing them. It is your government which is supporting the rotten governments in our countries.