Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.

I was right outside the NSA [on 9/11], so I remember the tension on that day. I remember hearing on the radio, ‘the plane’s hitting,’ and I remember thinking my grandfather, who worked for the...

Americans are self-reliant—on the government.

I want the government and the Bank of Japan to thoroughly discuss and then decide (when to scrap the quantitative easing policy).

Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in...

I don’t believe in the Constitution because I’m American, I’m American because I believe in the Constitution.

While the government deprives workers of wage hikes, it condones the weekly oil price hikes imposed by the Big Three and new oil players. How can the government expect workers to cope with the high...

Well, this is the federal government, and it has procedures that we go through.

The government cannot but judge extremely severely such criticisms, which are even more unacceptable coming from someone who holds an official position in another European Union country,

the Government is not liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act for injuries to servicemen where injuries arise out of or are in the course of activity incident to service” (U.S. Supreme Court 1950). Federal...

I’m as efficient as a fish ant, I’m as mythical as a productive government employee, and I’m the kind of lover your mother would approve of. Ask her—she’ll tell you how good I am in...

I always said a good despotism was the best form of government; and I am twice as much in favour of it now I see what a quorum is!

It is the most important site because of the fact that it is very much the seat of the government.

. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with the effect of its being made an instrument of intimidation, corruption,...

It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obstacle in the path of intellectual progress.The more religious a person is, the more he is steeped in ignorance...

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.”[On Water]

second amendment” argument as it relates to the 21st century. Originally, it was put into place for the simple reason that our forefathers were fighting or had just fought off a government that threatened them...

Our government has spent large sums of money to get the industrial base capable of producing and it has. And it has been delivered to the troops.

[Obamacare] was almost the perfect example of politics in the Bubble Era, where the time horizon for anyone with real power is always close to zero, long-term thinking is an alien concept, and even the...

Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously: the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

The meeting will provide a platform for the delegates to share knowledge and exchange ideas about issues in local government.

But we don’t have to react. That’s what I’m saying. A police force, like a government, should be above that. Just because we’re provoked doesn’t mean we have to act. — Still Life

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that’s a wonderful thing.

The first is to establish three large autonomous regions with a viable central government in Baghdad. The Kurdish, Sunni and Shiite regions would each be responsible for their own domestic laws, administration and internal security.

We think that if the government does not clarify all the issues, it would add to the panic that has already been caused by the demolition drive.

We say to the Israeli government that we are a peaceful nation but we want our rights.

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.

In 1953, Allen Dulles, then director of the USA Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), named Dr Sidney Gottlieb to direct the CIA’s MKULTRA programme, which included experiments conducted by psychiatrists to create amnesia, new dissociated identities,...

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of...

The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, intact for over 200 years, guaranteed that the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,...

Suppose (administration officials) felt that the rescue operations of the government, whether it’s state, local or federal, was being handled in an inept way, or evacuees are being mistreated, … Does that give them a...

The Sudanese government needs to bring war criminals to justice, not recruit them into positions of responsibility.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

Government can only reign over a classes-divided society.

Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d’être of the [New Deal programs]. The contrast between the modern progressive and classical liberal agendas...

Everything that he was saying sounded incredible, but Frank knew enough about politics to know that governments got away with what they did because they counted on ordinary citizens dismissing events as being too incredible...

The government of Iraq has decided that they won’t accept militias on the street. The government of Iraq has decided that the Mahdi militia is out there, and shouldn’t be out there.

For the U.S. government and the United Nations not to press Nigeria to hand Taylor over will send a clear message that the law only reaches so far.

This summit is not about Hugo Chavez. We’ve had some long-standing concerns about the policy for his government. This is not news.

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

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

The important thing for the government and for us is that the process at Boeing has been improved to make sure we don’t violate any export regulations going forward.

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

At present, the successful office-seeker is a good deal like the center of the earth; he weighs nothing himself, but draws everything else to him. There are so many societies, so many churches, so many...

So long as there is still a glimmer of hope, … the Chinese government will not give up its efforts for peaceful reunification and for a peaceful settlement of the question.

Is not that government both unjust and ungrateful, that is so prodigal of it’s favors to those called gentlemen, or goldsmiths, or such others who are idle, or live either by flattery or by contriving...

Living in a democratic society means that I can express my opinion,Having a democratic government means that they don’t have to listen.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

The government of Iran is engaged in the systematic oppression of its citizens, including the persecution of individuals for religious, political, and other reasons. Members of the country’s religious minorities — including Sunni Muslims, Sufis,...

Business is boss, politics is servant.