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.

That doesn’t mean that I abandon my constitutional powers to appoint ministers and government members. No, I don’t,

We hope that with the appointment of the commander we will all help the Palestinian government and the Interior Ministry to ensure the security of the public and the security of its property and aid...

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment …...

At times there’s something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who...

The urgency to form a broad-based government or a government of national unity in view of these challenges is absolutely essential.

I believe if we give ourselves this time, we will be able to succeed in forming a national unity government which people have been waiting for.

On behalf of the Government and people of India and on my own behalf, I would like to convey to you and to the people of Pakistan our heartfelt sympathies.

O silêncio dos omissos é combustível para a vilania dos canalhas

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...

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that...

For the most part, the evidence shows that individual Americans do not care a great deal about politics and are rather poorly informed, unstable in their views, and not much interested in participating in the...

Farmers don’t picket government corruption, they picket fences. Let this be a lesson in love and the proper way to separate churlish and state.

will meet with Serb and Kosovo Albanian leaders and Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), and will visit sites in the Kosovo countryside where alleged human rights violations have occurred.

We have urged the government of Peru, … to try Lori Berenson in a civilian court with full due process so that her guilt or innocence can be proven.

It’s illegal to forcefully take money from people unless you’re the government. It’s illegal to take someone’s liberty, unless you’re the government. It’s illegal to kill someone, unless you’re the government. Private organizations can do...

We have to convince people that the handouts – just taking a few little handouts, where you have a subsistent living, where you never grow, just get a little check and a few food stamps,...

Government is a kind of legalized pillage

These are very, very difficult issues, and we would ask the Syrian government not to interfere in such matters. It appears they are not listening and it seems that this behavior is not changing,

I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong. I want to be liked by more people, I want to be held...

Favorable underlying economic growth trends make the need for a national ‘stimulus’ package — ironic given the substantial government spending probably of about 1 pct of GDP about to occur — questionable,

Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element...

It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.

If man will not recognize the inequalities around him and voluntarily, through the gospel plan, come to the aid of his brother, he will find that through ‘a democratic process’ he will be forced to...

The Chinese government firmly supports and protects, in accordance with the law, all legal protest activities, … We believe that the broad masses will, proceeding from the fundamental interests of the nation and taking the...

The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the...

If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government...