The federal government was seen as key toward innovation and technological progress, by defining what’s essentially civilian, like the space program, as a government endeavor.

I froze, shocked. (And don’t try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)

The policy is still very defensive. The government doesn’t know what’s going to replace the economic activity that is being moved to China.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

In the tired hand of a dying man, Theodore Senior had written: “The ‘Machine politicians’ have shown their colors… I feel sorry for the country however as it shows the power of partisan politicians who...

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned...

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

Governments are nothing more than elaborate Rube Goldberg apparatuses, operating with absurd inefficiency. Why walk ten steps when you can make it there in a hundred?

Further talks to progress arrangements around forming a government are likely to be held in the coming week.

The government of Sudan should not have anything against the UN.

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we...

These three issues alone eat up the monthly cash flow coming into this government under the current economic condition. There’s not enough money, if any, to do other things, and that’s a very precarious situation.

In effect, the poor person is a rich person left to fend for him or herself, without the support of institutions that help the person to take ‘good’ decisions.

My hobbies include rubbing my nipples across a cheese grater, meeting cat ladies on Tinder, and voting for either Democrat or Republican every four years. You could say I am a torture enthusiast.

There is also a trilogy of books out. I started reading right after Christmas Divergent. I went to read Insurgent after, and now I’m on the third one. I don’t know, it’s Detergent or whatever....

I’m convinced this will allow us to slowly build a majority in parliament and allow backing for the government until 2009.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will...

The best way to guarantee you have a job tomorrow is to not finish all the work your boss asked of you today. Wait, that’s not right. Sorry, I’m thinking like a government employee again.

History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history–while it would not absolutely...

It’s the heavy hand of government slapping me in the head.

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers–just for society to keep track of who was who.

Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed by the people who went on to become part of the Fascist experience:(1)...

Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever the many are seen to do, forthwith obtains the force...

honest graft” were over, at least for a while. But seen from another perspective—that of ordinary citizens without access to Langlie and Abram’s elite network—Langlie didn’t so much end corruption as legalize it. Langlie wasn’t...

Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.

Your king is SUPPOSED to explode? What kind of government system is that?

But if government is in the business of promoting what is good and suppressing the bad, that is a license for it to stick it’s nose into virtually every human activity.

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government. That is, libertarians believe that murder is murder and does not become sanctified by reasons of state...

Getting someone from the government to talk is almost impossible.

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality

Every nation needs more people who love liberty, fear mob rule, and hate tyranny with the consistent logic and passion of Alexis de Tocqueville. He is still quoted by presidential candidates, but too often he’s...

She really exemplified the revolving door between the Republicans, industry groups and anti-environmental groups. I expect that government scientists and decision-makers are clapping their hands under their desks.

People did not vote for us so that we would head a government of the Right and the ultra-Orthodox. It is totally illegitimate and also stupid.

One of the ways to judge whether a government is progressive or not is to assess the way workers and trade unions are treated.

If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.

Our government would like to see the passage of the Russian subsoil law, which will clarify the rules and the laws for investment in the energy area,

General assumptions often lead to erroneous conclusions, but one cannot go far wrong in always assuming that whatever one’s government is saying is a lie.

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

We can come together to give the government the tools it needs to fight terrorism and protect the rights and freedoms of innocent citizens.

Darks drifts covered the horizon. A strange shadow approaching nearer and nearer, was spreading little by little over men, over things, over ideas; a shadow which came from indignations and from systems. All that had...

The government of the United States is not entitled to affirm as a universal proposition, with reference to a number of independent States for whose conduct it assumes no responsibility, that its interests are necessarily...

Chinese government always attaches great importance to the growth of woman and child and is endeavoring to resolve the urgent issues that restrict the woman and child development

I think the federal government, the state government and local government are a lot smarter this time around,

democracies,” derive all their power by force. Do something the government doesn’t want, like, say, cross the street against the light, refuse to submit to its authority, and it won’t be long before they’ll use...

Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.

Our leaders have been receiving threats for the past couple of months and we had informed the government about it, but no security was provided to our leaders.

We did well considering the winds were against us. It’s still possible to run a stable government.

We’re calling on the visiting Japanese ministers to pressure their government into stopping whaling in the Southern Ocean.

I have passed on the very resolute position of my government regarding the necessity of dialogue and a political solution.