Quotes About Government

la televisión condiciona fuertemente el proceso electoral, ya sea en la elección de los candidatos, bien en su modo de plantear la batalla electoral, o en la forma de ayudar a vencer al vencedor. Además, la televisión condiciona, o puede condicionar, fuertemente el gobierno, es decir, las decisiones del gobierno: lo que un gobierno puede y no puede hacer, o decidir lo que va a hacer.

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.

It's no surprise to him what any government does, least of all his own.

Government is not the solution, and it is not the problem. Government is the thing that collects taxes and paves roads and chooses to either invest or not invest in the future.

For those of Hamiltonian inclination, liberty tended to be positively defined, freedom to—the right to pursue personal entrepreneurship, and expect government support. Jefferson, who had after all drafted the Declaration of Independence, tended to emphasize a negatively defined freedom from—the right not to be interfered with, not to be tyrannized. These differences of opinion have divided American politics right down to the present day.

This is the disease. This is the disease in America. It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption. It is progressivism. And it is in both parties.

Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that.

But are we even capable of maintaining a Republic anymore? Are there enough citizens willing to do the hard work that self-rule requires, or have we become a people who would rather be cared for, fed, clothed, housed, and told what's best for us by a parentlike state? Unfortunately, the evidence suggests the latter.

Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.

Given enough time, guns and ammunition will eventually become so costly and time consuming to purchase, maintain, and insure that a ban will no longer be necessary. And that's what this is really about: control. Not of guns, but of us.

progressives start small. They introduce 'commonsense' regulations and restrictions that will supposedly save lives. Then, each time the public's attention is captured, they push further.

If we continue to stand up for our rights, none of us alive today will ever have to pick up a weapon against our government. The bad news is that if those rights are watered down or taken away, the risk of tyranny will increase with each passing generation.

The government," he told me one night, "is there to act as a safety net, not a candy machine.

On Obama Administration] "I've never heard any administration or any business or anybody ever claim incompetence more than this group of people,

the last official act of any government is to loot their own treasury.

Critics of home-schooling hate the idea of home-schooling and the freedom from the government school monopoly that it represents. Their attacks on academic success are just a transparent attempt to divert attention from their own failings.

And so this government of the United States was brilliantly designed to keep that weakness of human nature in check, but it required the people to participate daily, to be vigilant, and they have not. It demanded that they behave as though their government was their servant, but they have not. In their silence the people of the United States have spoken. While they slept the servant has become their master.

But in a crony system, banks and government institutions grant loans to students they know are unlikely to ever pay back the loans. Schools charge increasingly higher rates because they know government will give students virtually unlimited student loan debt. This is the model America's political class has been building for decades.

Local control worked well enough to make America's education system the envy of the world at one time. We started losing that advantage when local school districts started losing their autonomy. As Greene puts it, "The policies, practices, and funding of schools has increasingly shifted to the state and national governments and greater uniformity has been imposed by unionization. The enemy of high standards and improving outcomes is centralization.

You want to give nearly endless power over health care to the very same government socialists say is constantly engaging in crony deals with large corporations and special interests. The same government many socialists claim is "racist" and "sexist." If you don't trust the way the system works now, why would you want to give those in power even more power?