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Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

I think major reorganisation is not something the government's about to do.

Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.

The US government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they're now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex.

It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to step in and set guidelines for how shows should be rated.

If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do, that area is the purchasing of gold.

The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets.

I have confidence that the government of Luxembourg will not make any decision that frustrates this transaction.

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.

For me, liberals are people who seek to use government to promote the general welfare.

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.