Fit to govern? No, not fit to live.

If Canadians wanted a majority government they would have had a majority government. The Liberals have done nothing, achieved nothing, they’re going nowhere and they’re trying to blame other people.

It is critical that the newly elected leaders of Iraq do their part by forming a government of national unity with a good program and competent ministers as soon as possible.

the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security… In fact the...

One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.

We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we’re their government. And people trust their government.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people

The notion of limited government and frugal government has been shattered by this administration, which cares far less about limited government than it does in building conservative government – a government with huge payoffs to...

When you have a set of rules, and then government says they don’t apply to you — they only apply when we want them to — that’s a concern.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

a very positive and constructive role in the formation of the Iraqi government.

The government has the obligation to come forth and make its own case.

Dennis the Peasant: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony....

Domination is a relationship, not a condition; it depends on the participation of both parties. Hierarchical power is not just the gun in the policeman’s hand; it is just as much the obedience of the...

For if the car drives in the wrong direction better fuel doesn’t help.

Can the government grow the economy like a farmer grows an erection, or a male porn star grows a tree?

My objective now is to begin negotiations that will enable us to lead a government which brings New Zealanders together,

I removed all the doors to our love, so you can’t lock yourself away from me. But I didn’t stop there. I also replaced the doors with metal detectors, so I could fondle you more...

Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts.

One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would be a well-established truth in need of no further defense.

When individuals combine in a joint effort to realize ends the have in common, the organizations, like the state, that they form for this purpose are given their own system of ends and their own...

We have been united in government, and we will be even more so in opposition.

The proposal to quit voting is basically revolutionary; it amounts to a shifting of power from one group to another, which is the essence of revolution. As soon as the nonvoting movement got up steam,...

The government must stop further evictions and be more flexible in allowing shelter and other programs for those affected. It must ensure that beneficiaries are assisted solely on the basis of need.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This...

I eat cereal with a hammer, because I operate with a government-level efficiency. Let’s build a smarter tomorrow—with a spoon.

If voters want bigger government, sooner or later they’re going to return to the genuine article, and that’s the Democratic Party,

I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

I think what happened unfortunately is there is no policy in the U.S. government to allow these scientists to come to the U.S.. … There is no plea-bargain policy.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.

We have no illusions about what somebody like Sharon or any government professional can do without citizens deepening and expanding this public peace process of human relationships.

In 1891 the Brazilian Minister of Finance decreed the abolition of history; he ordered the destruction of every document which dealt in any way with slavery or the slave trade; a nation-wide burning of the...

We were so impressed with his background — not only in government, but as a surgeon, and his interest in becoming connected to the community.

The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings…Our way of life...

Liberty is not about class war, income war, race war, national war, a war between the sexes, or any other conflict apart from the core conflict between individuals and those who would seek power and...

But I think this is an area where pressure from the public is having an impact on what our government is doing.

This government was highly touched by this unfortunate incident, which claimed such a number of lives. The nation is in a state of grief and a state of mourning.

Let us fool ourselves no longer. At the very moment Western nations, threw off the ancient regime of absolute government, operating under a once-divine king, they were restoring this same system in a far more...

Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.

People will always try to scare you into things. Scare you away from things. Scare you into not wanting things you can’t help wanting. You can’t be afraid.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

If a legitimate government emerges that is broadly seen as being representative of Sunni, Shia and Kurdish interests, I think there is no reason to suppose that we can’t bring force levels down in the...

I was ecstatic when they re-named “French fries” as “freedom fries.” Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

I pledge to you the people, your government will not allow this desperate and irresponsible attempt to undermine the peace process and economic prosperity of the people to succeed,

It’s time to stop playing around with the organizational charts and to start focusing on government, at all levels, that are preparing for this storm season.

Be careful what you say…you might end up in my next book!

That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.

You have to be alarmed at the idea that the government can come in and say, ‘I want you to give me your statistical data.’ This could be the first step on the way for...

backseat driver” syndrome.