I want to see the openness of county government become institutionalized. If it is institutionalized, it is very difficult to take backwards steps. Open government extends beyond the concept of letting the public know what...

We believe AT&T violated the law by providing the communications of its clients to the government without warrants, which is prohibited by federal law.

The Cuban government is taking charge of the situation. We are standing down.

I have not asked anybody so far to form the government but we are leading towards contacts and consultations with all the blocs in parliament. Of course, I am going to ask the majority party...

When foreign investors enter Vietnam, they must follow the country’s labor rules. If they don’t, the Vietnamese government has the responsibility to enforce the law or expel the company. The government has to protect the...

We’re still a long way from agreeing on a government.

The Army’s new pitch was simple. Good pay, good benefits, a manageable amount of adventure… but don’t worry, we’re not looking to pick fights these days. For a country that had paid so dear a...

We want a red light or a green light from the government … We shouldn’t be relying on private companies and the airlines to authenticate background checks.

I think maybe the classic formulation was by David Hume in “Of the First Principles of Government,” where he pointed out that “Force is always on the side of the governed.” Whether it’s a military...

A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.

If you have a really good ideas, one thing you dont need is a fucking gun. An iPad is a kind of a cool thing. They don’t need to threaten you with fines to get...

What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles...

nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it...

Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it’s cattle, or horses, or men; the least government is the best government.

The mass hallucination of the twentieth century is this: that all these national governments, which each year kill or threaten way more humans than they protect, and take a big chunk of your income to...

The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought.

They felt that it would release the stranglehold that partisanship had on government,

You think that just because a person doesn’t question the way the system works that means they agree with it? And if they do agree that must mean they’re happy? Are you happy?

The one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period [is] contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.

It is absolutely staggering the amount of money the oil companies already pay in taxes. Government has profited more from the oil industry than the oil industry has profited from consumers.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

Terrorists have to know that (in Spain) there is going to be a government that is inflexible with terrorism and that wherever they are, they will be hunted down. This has been my policy since...

This government will not march or walk in two tracks in the same time in parallel. I mean terror by day and negotiation by night. If these terrorist contacts will continue, I think that we...

Since when has leadership been a criterion for sanity? Or vice versa. Hitler was a gifted leader, even Nixon. Exhibit leadership qualities as an adolescent, they pack you off to law school for an anus...

I believe in political equality. But there are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of the commonwealth, and so...

Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while customs officials tried to figure out how to classify it.

further down the income distribution and…[increased] the aid to state governments or [proposed] some sort of federal government infrastructure-spending program.

System fails when people with ability don’t have authority and people with authority don’t have ability.

To date, Kenya lacks an effective livestock marketing policy and it is prudent for the Government to move fast and implement a Livestock Marketing Authority, which was passed in Parliament.

A lot has to do with the trust level between the public and government. We are very lucky in the United States in that the public does believe what the government says.

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

I have felt that this is a matter that ought to be undertaken with the federal government behind these kinds of prosecutions. It is a signal to the haters in America.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the care of the victims of the depression rests upon the locality — its individuals, organizations and Government. It rests,...

A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace by man is absolute control of all wrongs. Bully-cultures find this: with each...

I put the hop in IHOP, and jumped on my pan of pancakes and then on to Panama. That’s standard government issued foolishness right there.

These were the bills that put us at the crossroads, whether Japan can create a small government or it is headed toward creating a big government, … The rejection is a major blow to Japan’s...

My Son, Only Tax and Death are for sure.

There were rumors that the government is meeting to raise rates. They’re just rumors but it shows the market’s state of discomfort with inflation levels.

Weapons should be only the hands of the government.

They [the government] has been attacking our people, who are conducting a peaceful march in show of support for the judges.

It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

A real patriot doesn’t unconditionally stick up for his government—he stands up for freedom.

Everybody says that I have a lot of power. But what does that power consist of?… Can I influence governments? I am beginning to be able to…” (1995)

We do hope that there can shortly be a government of national unity and that the installation of the government can contribute to greater stability in the country.

Chip testers led a technical rebound on the government allowing them to invest in China, as their overseas competitors already invest in China.

The Chinese government and people have been committed to safeguarding peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits, and will make the utmost efforts with the utmost sincerity to achieve the country’s peaceful reunification,

My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brotherhood. The ’80s were about acquiring — acquiring wealth, power, prestige....

And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us,...