Quotes About Government

I want to tell Quebecers that are listening: if you want to get back to the goal of creating a country, only a majority government can do it, a sovereigntist government of the Parti Quebecois.

Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?

That just doesn't make sense, that government should be making money off students.

Lots of people can manage. That's not the question. It's this: Can we reimagine? Knowing how government works is not the same as getting it to work transformationally.

To manage your country, there's no bigger job.

The CDU is willing to continue to take responsibility for our country. We want to do justice to the government mandate.

I stand for mandatory toothbrushing laws.

The most interesting stuff happens when an authoritarian government removes itself a little and gives this margin of freedom. And then art is grabbed with both hands.

We want to have markets that are self-policing through competition. The Internet community doesn't want the government coming in and regulating it.

The government needs to work to improve how markets perform.

When governments murder those who speak the truth, it is time to get new governments.

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

If we continue on the present course, with big foundations and the federal government investing heavily in opening more charter schools, the result is predictable. Charter schools in urban centers will enroll the motivated children of the poor, while the regular public schools will become schools of last resort for those who never applied or were rejected.

Interestingly, when they are on our side, we usually refer to them as guerrillas or partisans or freedom fighters. When they, the men in the hills, oppose a government we support, we call them insurgents.

The American left's motto comes from the English Fabian socialist George Bernard Shaw: "Any government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on Paul's support.

This is how Hillary conducts government policy. She is ruthless, she is grasping, she appears to have little empathy or concern for people. She is old, and mean, and even her laugh is a witch's cackle. There is almost nothing appealing about her. How, then, could she be the first choice of progressive Democrats and the apparent frontrunner for winning the presidency in November 2016?

Mussolini envisioned a powerful centralized state directing the institutions of the private sector, forcing their private welfare into line with the national welfare. Isn't this precisely how progressives view the federal government's control of banks, finance companies, insurance companies, health care, energy, and education?

Can there be any liberty," wrote James Otis in 1763, "where property is taken without consent?

The left also wants to swamp the country with illegals, seeking to make them dependent on the government, so that if they ever get amnesty and can vote, they will vote for the party that sneaked them through and provided them with a steady, if meager, sustenance.

Comparisons between America and the Scandinavian countries typically focus on the top marginal tax rate. In America, it's around 46 percent when you combine federal and state income taxes. This compares with Norway at 39 percent, Sweden at 56 percent and Denmark at 60 percent. Norway's top marginal income tax rate is actually lower than that of the United States. Sweden and Denmark's rates are substantially higher. But

Both the fascists and the progressives viewed the centralized state as the logical outgrowth of everything they stood for.

Look at the way that Obama greatly increased government control not only over healthcare—every hospital, every doctor, every health insurance company—but also over the financial sector—every bank, every investment house—and increasingly over the energy, automobile and education sectors as well.

Pine Ridge reservation, White Face told me, is one of the largest reservations in the country, and the poorest. Like other reservations, it is run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), an agency of the federal government. While in theory the native Indians are separate nations, in reality they are, as the Supreme Court once termed them, "dependent nations"—dependent on the government through the BIA.

the morality of capitalism, just like the morality of democracy, is rooted in consent.