What do you call 1,000 government employees with no mouths or legs? More efficient.

Consumer tax is one of the key signals for government to tell the market they want society to be more concerned about the balanced use of energy.

If, however, there is any new evidence that emerges, we would want to see the Salvadorans vigorously urge the government…to investigate and, if warranted, to prosecute those implicated.

The more laws that are created, the closer we get to lawlessness.

The idea that blacks, or anyone for that matter, need the government to get ahead in life is despicable. And even more important, this idea is a failure. Our communities are just as poor as...

We want a prime minister who can gather all the political blocs around him, so that the government would be one of national unity.

That which now calls itself democracy differs from older forms of government solely in that it drives with new horses: the streets are still the same old streets, and the wheels are likewise the same...

It is a moment of shame for South Korea that the Japanese government had to do what would have been our government’s job: confirm the fate of one of our own who was abducted by...

Even if these researchers do see the need to address the problem immediately, though they have obligations and legitimate interests elsewhere, including being funded for other research. With luck, the ideas discussed in Good Calories,...

It still would be years before I understood the seriousness of my change of view. Much later, I recognized it in “Revolution,” the essay of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, who describes the moment when a...

All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities,...

Their message is clear and straightforward: Get the federal government out of my bathroom,

Private property is redundant. “Public property” is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn’t private it’s stolen.

The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave...

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

It does follow a pattern. Voters want good government, but they also want it within their ideological framework.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Intellectual property, more than ever, is a line drawn around information, which asserts that despite having been set loose in the world – and having, inevitably, been created out of an individual’s relationship with the...

If John Howard has nothing to hide, he would widen the terms of reference to cover his Government, ministers, and advisers. He shouldn’t put commissioner Cole in the position of, at some stage, having to...

If the government isn’t to blame here, why are they settling for so much money? They need to admit blame and take responsibility.

Someone asked me the other day if I believe in conspiracies. Well, sure. Here’s one. It is called the political system. It is nothing if not a giant conspiracy to rob, trick and subjugate the...

We have noticed that the spokesman for U.S. government reaffirmed that the United States adheres to the one-China policy and opposes ‘Taiwan independence’.

Anyone even remotely suspect was interrogated, because interrogation is by far the most effective method of speedily banishing inappropriate thoughts from the mind.

I’m not scared of the Maos and the Stalins and the Hitlers. I’m scared of the thousands of millions of people that hallucinate them to be “authority”, and so do their bidding, and pay for...

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

It was a game of chicken at this point. The husband had entered his guilty plea. He knew the government didn’t want to prosecute her because it would require them to show their hand. That...

The current scandals in Washington should remind us just how far we have strayed from the vision of limited government the Founders handed down to us. So long as government grows more powerful, money will...

For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the introduction to some epic science-fiction film, then shining brightly on...

We want the three tiers of government to come together and see the urgency of it all. We need (the highway improvement) to start today and finish within 10 years.

Government is the right disposition of things.

Statism is an unnatural disaster.

One glance at any government budget anywhere in the world tells the story—the money is always in place, already allocated, the motive everywhere is fear, the more immediate the fear, the higher the multiples.

HUD expects us to carry out our responsibilities to the federal government. If the leases are violated, we have to take action. This is our way of, I guess, putting out the message that a...

The commitments that are made are significant and it’s going to be very, very difficult for any government to retreat from those commitments here,

With the appointment of Inspector General Hoffman, anyone who tries to scam the government — either on the job or through a contract — will do so with fair warning: They will be caught and...

Look how many of our young are ill prepared to enter adult life today. This was designed by progressives to create government dependency.

A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a whiff of cannon-smoke

We’re trying to find a solution that works for the federal government, the (government of Northwest Territories), the peoples of the North, the producers and consumers. We all agree that if we can get this...

Government growing beyond our consent had become a lumbering giant, slamming shut the gates of opportunity, threatening to crush the very roots of our freedom. What brought America back? The American people brought us back...

Government is bad when it takes more than 30 percent of a taxpayer’s income in taxes. Proudhon was wrong when he said property is theft; it’s our federal budget that is institutionalized theft.

It can be a dysfunctional government,

Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance,...

Were we to be directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

We must judge of a form of government by it’s general tendency, not by happy accidents

It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the ‘right’ to education, the ‘right’ to health care, the ‘right’ to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are the...

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.They took away his...

so-called elected governments will protect you, you are wrong. This new crusade will end with your defeat, the killing of your sons and the destruction of your economy.

They think the government shows people everything —how to work, study, eat, sleep and that’s it. They are afraid of change. They do not understand that if you want to do something, you should do...

No one wants to deal with costs. No one wants to deal with the uninsured. So each layer of government keeps pushing down the problems.

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than...