Quotes About Government

I don't think there should even be a president, man. I think we should have total democracy.

Significant numbers of American evangelicals reject the way some have distorted biblical passages as their rationale for uncritical support for every policy and action of the Israeli government instead of judging all actions—of both Israelis and Palestinians—on the basis of biblical standards of justice.

In every instance that I have known of with confrontation with the government and the press, the press was always right. So keep it up.

It is interesting to note that an overwhelming majority of citizens in the world's three largest democracies have different religions: India (81 percent Hindu), the United States (76 percent Christian), and Indonesia (87 percent Muslim). Two of them have elected women as leaders of their government.

Just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery.

Writers exist to question, to challenge, sometimes even to ridicule – the status quo. For a government to imprison a writer for doing this is to attack, not only freedom of speech, but freedom of the imagination. It is a backward, oppressive and ultimately futile gesture that can only lead to greater and more damaging social unrest. I condemn it entirely, and hope that Ahmet Altan is freed as soon as possible.

pero ¿puede entrar en el ánimo del gobierno eliminar la locura? No. ¿Y si el gobierno no la puede eliminar, está al menos apto para discriminarla y reconocerla? Tampoco. Ello es materia de la ciencia. Por lo tanto, en asunto tan melindroso, el gobierno no puede, no debe, no quiere dispensar el concurso de vuestra merced. Lo que le pide es que arbitremos un medio para contentar al pueblo.

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

The eligibility for food stamps has widened and widened welfare has been widened - unemployment insurance and disability insurance. These are all incentives not to work.

In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45, 000, plus as much as $10, 000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

I will work in partnership with the Government, all political parties, and civil society to safeguard and advance the future of all Singaporeans.

I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

We do have our challenges. Some things don't always work right in Washington, and the anger you see from the electorate, I think, is a reflection of what's not working right.

We pay too little attention to the reserve power of the people to take care of themselves. We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.

Don't steal, the government hates competition.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

Governments didn't have to listen to the people until the people made it hurt not to listen.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

Our society had been a kleptocracy of the highest order, the government doing its best to steal from the Americans, the average man doing his best to steal from the government, the worst of us doing our best to steal from each other.

This is what I think so many of us who work in the arts and the humanities hope to receive from our universities, from our government, from sometimes skeptical students and their parents: patience and faith in us as we test the limits of our ignorance, as we pursue what may very well be useless, as we go in search of that mystery and intuition that exist within all of us.

Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.

There is that old joke. Why is there never a coup in the United States? Because there is no US embassy there.