Quotes About Government

The reason is that the people know that the Democratic Party is the people's party, and the Republican Party is the party of special interest, and it always has been and always will be.

You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.

If some markets look free, it is only because we so totally accept the regulations that are propping them up that they become invisible.

El mercado libre no existe. Todos los mercados tienen reglas y límites que acotan la libertad de elección. Si un mercado parece libre, solo es porque aceptamos tan incondicionalmente sus restricciones de base que ya no las vemos. No se puede definir con objetividad lo «libre» que es un mercado.

algunos mercados parecen libres, solo es porque aceptamos tanto las regulaciones en las que se apoya que se vuelven invisibles.

There is no such thing as free market. All markets are created and have rules and regulations.

The welfare state is the bankruptcy law for workers

The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision.

We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.

Empire abroad entails tyranny at home

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal. Freedom of money and freedom of banking... are the principles that must guide our steps.

Der Staat ist die Einheit eines Systems von Normen, die regeln, unter welchen Bedingungen ein bestimmter Zwang von Mensch zu Mensch geübt werden soll.

A government is a territorial monopolist of compulsion-an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the expropriation, taxation and regulation-of private property owners.

While unconstitutional exercise of power by the executive and legislative branches of the government is subject to judicial restraint, the only check upon our own exercise of power is our own sense of self-restraint. For the removal of unwise laws from the statute books appeal lies not to the courts but to the ballot and to the processes of democratic government.

Nothing," he declaimed to the assembled town, "could be more gratifying to eight millions of people than to behold the man whom they have voluntarily placed at the head of their government, ardently laboring to promote the welfare and happiness not of a few, not of a faction; not of his dependents and flatterers; but of the whole American Republic.

Lafayette told the duke, as the latter read the document, "and I see the Constitution of the United States as the most perfect document in existence.

At the end of June 1783, Monroe's first year of government service came to an end. Although he had accomplished nothing, he had done no less than his colleagues - which is exactly what Virginia planters had elected them to do.

Governments may know a lot more about our lives than we care to contemplate, but frequently they know less about the world than we presume.

Government just cannot govern well without reliable independent reporting and criticism. No intelligence system, no bureaucracy, can offer the information provided by free competitive reporting; the cleverest agents of the secret police state are inferior to the plodding reporter of the democracy.

I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.

New York Times founder Henry Raymond started his newspaper, "with the goal of reforming government, not belittling it.

So great was the quest for patronage that Lincoln came to hope that Southerners would never leave the Union and abandon the plum government jobs they might retain if they remained loyal. As he joked rather cynically to the Ohio editor and politician Donn Piatt over a chicken dinner at the Lincoln home: "Were it believed that vacant places could be had at the North Pole, the road there would be lined with dead Virginians.

Indeed, in 1794, George Washington had not only authorized sending national troops into battle against Pennsylvanians resisting the whiskey tax, he had taken to the field to lead the forces himself. Later, Andrew Jackson had acted boldly to crush South Carolina's attempt to nullify the 1832 tariff.