The infrastructure system providers didn’t understand the interdependencies among their systems. If you talk to state and local government and local utilities, they’ll tell you they have great response plans. The problem is, they write...

Nothing in my 26 years on Wall Street or my six years in government suggests that there is any predictive capability even remotely reliable enough for such a system, … In addition, the early warning...

There could be nothing, he reflected, to equal a government which was simply the honest enforcement, by means of the sword, of the laws of Islam.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, especially when it comes to bureaucrats in a government who has no clueabout money matters

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.

We must not look to government to solve our problems. Government is the problem.

These situations are always incredibly difficult for prime ministers and government, but so far there’s been no public outcry against Blair for refusing to deal with terrorists,

The U.S. government’s support for Linux is indicative of the shift away from government-developed code and the lower costs associated with commercial off-the-shelf solutions. The U.S. government benefits from the community efforts to enhance the...

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the...

Social entrepreneurship represents the opportunity to redefine the role of government.

So you don’t think the government is responsible for anything?” “Oh, it’s responsible,” Rafferty says. “It’s responsible for the sloppiness and imprecision of the War on Terror, for example. It’s responsible for taking people’s tax...

In any government, interests precede truth.

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

making excuses for the Saudi government.

The market is ready for these types of products. The system administrators, the companies, the government agencies, etc., are either going to be legislated or embarrassed into protecting that data because they don’t need this...

An anarchist government somehow creates an impression in the hearts of citizens that no one cares.

For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.

We believe it is good government to enact a law funding this research, rather than having to amend the Florida Constitution to do so, … We support the Florida Legislature taking this up in March...

But, Jefferson worried that the people – and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle – are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand...

I’m frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in “A,” “B,” “C” and “D.”...

The government better go to school and learn how confusing all that was for the jury.

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

As far as I’m concerned, everything takes too long in the federal government,

Keep your head down, Edward. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

Now, paper and pencils,” said Miss Marcy, clapping her hands.Writing paper is scarce in this house, and I had no intention of tearing sheets out of this exercise book, which is a superb sixpenny one...

When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.

In the old days feminists would mock women who depended so much on a man. Today if the man is the government, not so much. A man who opens the door for you is a...

Conventional wisdom says if you’re getting a large refund, it’s a bad thing, that you’ve lent money to the government for free for the past year. If your refund is the only way you can...

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such...

(Patrick) Henry rightly understood that the moral condition of the American people was a direct product of their religious faith, and that politics and morality were inevitably intertwined. Thus, the political structure ultimately rested on...

Did not Socrates, all the while he unflinchingly refused to concede one iota of loyalty to his daemon, obey with equal fidelity and equanimity the command of his earthly master, the State? His conscience he...

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have been made of those words, the amendments, the failed amendments, the struggles, the...

The Government’s going to pass a bill regarding schools. Well I never. Interfering gang they are, as if a parent doesn’t know what’s best for her own child. I don’t know, I don’t know! We...

I want to call…for us to quickly conclude work on the government. I will approach Donald Tusk, who fought superbly in this campaign.

One of the things the government can’t do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

Apparently these new rulers of the world did not indulge in any drinking or smoking to soften their moods when they met, which Menelaus knew to be a big mistake. The Congress of the United...

One of the great failures of this Government is tough talk on terrorism, instead of first seeking to understand.

It clearly reveals one important thing that the government is trying to do, which is avoid the Court of Appeals in every possible way.

the government must not hand the terrorists a victory by taking away long held liberties and principles of justice.

I am not in the slightest bit surprised that the Indian government thinks it fit to put its navy on the alert,

All obstacles to forming a national unity government soon will be resolved.

I have an idea about voting, how about on every ballot we include “None of the above”. People may laugh at that, but what that is, it is a vote of no confidence in your...

The government appears to be going very aggressively after these types of leak cases, … and when reporters are involved, I’m just gritting my teeth.

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. Its function is...

Hitler used the Olympics to show his people that his government had legitimacy. The Chinese government wants a similar result: that countries recognize that China is a great and powerful country.

I can’t predict a timetable for forming the government. All these important points need thorough study. If they can’t reach an agreement, then there will be a problem.