Quotes About Government

My journey started in the courthouse and went to the statehouse.

Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.

We've been living with this myth that somehow government investment in research has not been critical to economic growth.

The most famous secret base, I guess, would be Area 51, which a lot of people have heard of as a kind of mythical place. Well, it's a real place.

The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.

The bedroom tax turfed people, many of them disabled, out of their homes, while the government disseminated myths about people living it up in council houses the size of small mansions.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

If I were to give you a list of names of the people, world political figures, who have been assisted by the CIA, and even assisted to office around the world, you'd be astonished and probably wouldn't believe it. But it's very long, and the names are very distinguished.

I believe that when the public lacks even the most fundamental access to what its governments and militaries are doing in their names, then they cease to be involved in the act of citizenship.

Government should show the list of farmers, who have got benefitted from loan waiver. Farmers' loan of Rs 39 lakh crore was waived off. So, why is government hiding their names?

The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As a result, human rights conventions are unique among international law instruments in depending for their enforcement mostly on the activism of a global civil society movement.

We hear some people talk about the nanny state and, actually, we don't want to be telling people how to bring up their children, or how to be parents.

The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell the narrative that the problems of 2008 have been fixed.

There is a narrative of 'Washington fighting' because it's interesting and it's drama.

I don't have a problem with the Centre sanctioning funds to any state. However, when this is done for narrow political considerations, it damages the federal fabric mandated by the Constitution.

I don't think I could advocate for increasing NASA's budget by a factor of two or ten, because I want us to have good roads in our country. I want us to have good education in our country. And NASA's budget is part of a discretionary budget, and we can't make that bigger without taking away other things.

The U.S. federal government may be going broke, but it's not because of NASA.

NASA, like every government organization, has some bureaucracy, which can become slimmer.

We go as humans into space to expand the domain of humanity and life - not robots. And as we do, we will get more science because when you are living somewhere, you obviously learn more about it. NASA and the government must first get out of the way and then support us as we open the frontier.

A lot of nasty things were said about me in my own party about my unwillingness to demand the government shutdown.

A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.