So far, the biggest surprise is how effective a job the government is doing. The case is stronger than I thought it would be. The witnesses have been more effective than I thought they would...

A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted–in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A Reactionary is a somnambulist...

If we are to violate the Constitution, will the people submit to our unauthorized acts? Sir, they ought not to submit; they would deserve the chains that these measures are forging for them. The country...

The government wants to be aware of all your movements—probably including your bowel movements. Ain’t that some shit?

Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared,...

The United States stands with the people and government of Indonesia as they work to bring to justice those responsible for these acts of terrorism, … We will continue to work together in our common...

Can America get back to a point where politicians are honest? Not unless that point is the tip of a sword.

When I was ten years old, one of my friends brought a Shaleenian kangaroo-cat to school one day. I remember the way it hopped around with quick, nervous leaps, peering at everything with its large,...

selected by Iraq’s Transitional National Assembly to lead the nation’s democratically elected government in over 50 years.

…la televisión condiciona fuertemente el proceso electoral, ya sea en la elección de los candidatos, bien en su modo de plantear la batalla electoral, o en la forma de ayudar a vencer al vencedor. Además,...

Taxes have gone up, spending has gone up, waste of government money has vastly increased, and I think people will say he frittered away a very strong economic inheritance.

I hope you don’t mind, but I took the liberty of taking away your freedoms. –Uncle Sam

gridlock the government and defy the people.

I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government,...

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common...

I was born unworthy. – X-10

[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with “a moviegoer’s or writer’s sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself participating, and views much of the political process as ridiculous or surreal, even...

Help yourselves, and be good and peaceful toward one another. The fold is open, there is plenty of food. You need have no fear of dogs and clubs.” The sheep would doubtless keep the peace...

Remove God from the world of ideas. Remove government, politics from society. Keep sex, humor, utilities. Let private property go.

It is not enough for the Nigerian government to initiate an investigation. We need an international commission of inquiry that will report directly to the UN Secretary-General and make its findings public.

We will always be interested in a fair and reasonable settlement, but the government is just posturing with this. The government is saying that as long as we agree to whatever extreme proposals the court...

Folks can’t seem to realize that it isn’t a smooth talker we need in there but a steady man, a man with judgement. Any medicine-show man can spout words, if they are written for him....

We got the clearance yesterday (Wednesday) from the government for these matches.

Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America’s government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that...

We do need a system, and we do need you and your ‘Bertos, and sometimes we need Sam to just come along and kick some ass. – Quinn

What these open government laws do is break down that wall of government secrecy so that everybody knows what’s going on. A democracy can only function if we have information. You can only have oversight...

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

He can point fingers as much as he wants. It’s not up to the federal government to cover the shortfall.

Optimism abounds on the market. Retail investors expect an influx of funds from institutions and the government to lure overseas-listed blue chips back to mainland markets.

Did you consider anything like the Infected?’ Simon had asked.’Not quite. But some of our other contingency plans might help us out with this particular mission.

An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!

This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that, unless we heard from them by eleven o’clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from...

Anyone who thinks the federal government can come to the rescue at the last moment does not understand the complexities of this situation.

That government is best which governs least.

We know foreign governments want our technology. We know they will go to all lengths to get it, … It is incumbent upon us to have the best security practices, constantly to review them, learn...

a victim of a corrupt government.

It’s certainly consistent with government policy and consistent with Australian federal police guidelines we have in relation to dealing in transnational crime matters where the death penalty may exist,

The government installing a system is a waste if the public still does not have knowledge about the system, and there is no party assigned to educate people on how the system works.

If we don’t learn from each others experience, we are forced to listen to people who have economic reasons to withhold critical information from us all. The other option is to wait for the government...

He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us that nations of law then forgot justice and let the law become a Game,...

I guess I’m just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and...

The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

As far as PLDT is concerned, the case involves the government and competing claims over the block of shares. As a company, PLDT is not involved in this matter.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

The only purpose of government is to protect the people.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat...

You govern people, you do good and bad things.If you don’t have guts to do bad, then step aside.

Government in our democracy, state and national, must be neutral in matters of religious theory, doctrine, and practice. It may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may...

Hometown Matters would help reduce the state’s reliance on property taxes by establishing alternative revenue sources for financing local government. It would also create more efficient local government. Property-tax relief is good, but it is...