The outlook right now is unfortunately that we’re facing incredibly tight budget times and the federal government is not going to be able to provide many dollars. That said, the projects that do get priority...

that’s government property that is now going to have to replaced or fixed.

Total paranoia is just total awareness.

What if, I never tire of asking, we said ‘Secret Council’ instead of the archaic and therefore cuddly ‘Privy Council’?

The United States government does not negotiate with terrorists,

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.

Because widespread participation is so central to popular sovereignty, we can say that the less political participation there is in a society, the weaker the democracy.

Who’d pay more to get less? Only a fool—or a government agency.

If you start to smell some of the shit, you start smelling all of the shit

When are the two parties, the government and the (rebels), going to wake up? They are the parties that can put an end to violence.

No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can.

I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.

The country he had left thirty years ago had been a realistic place. There were political realities there, then and now, that precluded blind faith, that discouraged one from thinking that everything, always, would work...

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men

The hidden cost of frowning is the negative impact on the people around you, which results in diminished productivity in the workforce, and lost tax revenue for the city. Thus, frowns should be fined, and...

In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew correspondingly weaker and weaker. New bureaus and directorates, odd ministries, leaped into existence for the most improbable purposes. These...

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth...

There just is no vision for limited government,

In monarchies, each man’s desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronage, or by honor, and by professional standing armies. By contrast, republics had...

This is a good opportunity for the government to prove that everyone is equal before the law whether they are high-ranking ministers or prominent businessmen.

So why don’t Americans cheat? Because they think that their system is legitimate. People accept authority when they see that it treats everyone equally, when it is possible to speak up and be heard, and...

The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global...

There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-earning employees, the government is something to be avoided, an overwhelming,...

Now, are those engaged in the business of governing any different by nature from those they govern?””Yes. They’re prideful and tend to sexual misconduct. Also, the situation of being in government tends to drive you...

possible attempt by Belgrade to oust his government.

This government’s budget is barely six months old and it’s already been blown to smithereens, … The government seems to have abandoned all pretence of control on the public purse.

Growing economies are built by billions of actors behaving according to their own interests, coordinated through institutions that no one in particular created.Realizing this requires humility, a trait that is in short supply among would-be...

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

That creates a 28-month process for what the federal government said should be a 24-month process.

A nanny state is hostile to liberty. Any attempt to institute or continue it should be opposed, root and branch. Government intervention is never the solution; it is always part of the problem.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

Although some government officials and ruling bloc lawmakers remain reluctant toward an early policy shift, there are nearly no objections in the private sector, including the banking industry, the insurance industry and business lobbies.

Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to co-ordinating proliferating human variety or seeking to reduce that variety by repressive measures.

It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer products can coexist with free public health care, with public...

A young, beautiful mayor’s with high-powered plans for the city of Compton must put them aside to become a sleuth to solve the assassination of her husband, the mayor.

Maybe this is one way to move the federal government. It’s a ridiculous way to be addressing the problem to go state by state, receiving threats from the government saying it’s illegal, and yet states...

well, I became a drug addict and I lost my house, family, and my job and all that.” It’s not because you became a drug addict but, because there is a war on drugs which...

I think they are waiting for the new government. The tempo will build up,

One of the issues we are working with the government on, we’re begging them, we need more pathways. It’s the wireless information highway; we need the asphalt for that highway.

I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps

The federal government, state government and local government did not have the processes, in my opinion, to deal with a storm of this magnitude,

[The answer of Solon to the question ‘Which is the most perfect popular government?’]That where the least injury done to the meanest individual, is considered as an insult on the whole constitution.

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, that two become a lawfirm, and that three or more become a congress. -John Adams

This is a government which takes national security seriously and that’s not just national security against terrorism, it is national security against all forms of threat, including biological threat,

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

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

It is past time for the U.S. government to fully fulfill our moral obligation to those who have fought for freedom and democracy.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to...

We don’t understand very much about this at all. It’s primarily due to the federal government not providing funding commensurate with this disease’s death toll. We need to have more research done. That’s the only...

To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor...