Texas functions best when public officials recognize that government does not belong to them but to the people,

Coffee and donuts go together like government policy and subsequent poverty.

While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious why so many secularists are addicted to politics because political power is a...

We’re under pressure because we haven’t reached the point where we can form a stable government yet.

A compassionate government does not need to pay too much attention to those who don’t have needs. True leadership is to fulfill a need of the needy. People who have needs need attention indeed! Be...

The idea of freedom is complex and it is all-encompassing. It’s the idea that the economy must remain free of government persuasion. It’s the idea that the press must operate without government intrusion. And it’s...

This meeting instills the personal responsibility into everyone so we don’t rely solely on government. Too many times we want to blame somebody else instead of taking responsibility ourselves. It’s our job to take care...

Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard it as a sacred duty to encourage the country’s most...

Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.

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.

Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people,...

When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars,...

The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste for following, in their private actions, no other guide but their own will. This complete independence, which...

In bad countries the government takes care of everyone. In the best ones that’s not necessary!‏

As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or...

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.)