Quotes About Government

We may disagree with the morality of a law, but we cannot deny the moral concern of a law.

They spent billions on the problem, with no effect other than to greatly enrich their friends and create more homeless people.

Politics was an illusion of service that cloaked the corruption of power.

Border to border, from sea to shining sea, police cars and other government vehicles had for some time been equipped with 360-degree license-plate-scanning systems that recorded the numbers of the vehicles around them, whether parked or in motion, transmitting them 24/7 to regional archives, which in turn shared the information with the National Security Agency's vast intelligence troves in its million-square-foot Utah Data Center.

Every vehicle with a GPS is tracked by satellite, and the history of its travels is archived in the million-square-foot Utah Data Center of the National Security Agency, in its ever-growing cloud. The NSA is a jealous guardian of the knowledge that it has acquired, and police agencies do not have routine access to it.

she shoots down a megadollar drone that's government property

If the installation is under the auspices of the EPA, the CDC, the NSA, the CIA, or some federal black-op outfit

or some federal black-op outfit with no name, that is more problematic.

highly successful history of bribing public officials

if the House and Senate wouldn't write laws to force the courts to do so, then judges and politicians couldn't be counted on to protect anyone, anywhere, at any time.

Like most modern art, they interested her no more than did the wind-tangled rain-compacted sun-bleached trash that time accumulated in vomitous-looking masses along California's cracked and potholed highways, as the once-golden state stewed in government corruption on its way to bankruptcy.

The U.S. government spends billions of dollars on disasters after they happen, but it pinches pennies when it comes to preparing for them.

I dream of a day when governments and societies no longer value blood and race over children, and the millions of unwanted children are freed at birth for adoption by people of every race. Aside from all its other benefits, massive adoption is the best assurance that people will never again slaughter the other. When members of every family are one of those others, such hatreds will become, finally, impossible.

In war, government and their armies were a threat, but it was so often the neighbors who damned or saved you.

A government derives its powers from the just consent of the governed," I quoted, nodding. "For a Committee of Safety to have any legitimacy, there needs to be an obvious threat to the public safety. Clever of the Browns to have reasoned that out." He gave me a look, one auburn brow raised. "Who said that? The consent of the governed." "Thomas Jefferson," I replied, feeling

I had someone call me this morning telling me they had somebody who would only work a certain number of hours a week because if they worked too many hours a week, then they couldn't get their government assistance.

My dad would much rather work a couple jobs than be on government assistance.

The assumption that everyone in government is a bad actor imperils our democracy.

The Attorney General is not above the law.

Austerity hasn't just decimated our public services. It has corroded the political imagination.

Austerity is, devastatingly, not a party political issue.

This government and the party that I lead will continue to argue an alternative to the Tory-Labour austerity.

Let me put it very forcefully: No large economy has ever recovered from an economic downturn through austerity. It's not going to happen in the United States, and it's not going to happen in Europe.

I want to end austerity.