Quotes About Government

Many, many times I would shake my head in dismay at the goings-on in the House of Commons, but that never caused me to lose my fundamental faith in the values of our parliamentary institutions.

Margot [Hentoff] dislikes Bill Clinton because he's totally untrustworthy, and you really ought to have some faith in whoever's going to be your president.

I condemn all incidents of violence where religious minorities were targeted, no religious group can incite violence ... my government will ensure there is complete freedom of faith.

History is on our side, people prefer being free &having a choice or at least the illusion of one. Versus being fed by the government.

Any government objective should be and only be: not to make life easy for everybody but rather to make their dreams become possible to achieve.

1984 is a great fiction novel to read but it seems like it is becoming the reality we are currently living under more and more each day.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Clinton grew up working-class, and had spent a lifetime in public service and government generally accepting the frameworks of those systems. Trump, the son of a wealthy man, showed no interest in them. And he had no compunction about being seen as using the government as if it were an extension of himself.

Modern Western empires are different from empires of old as well as the Soviet empire of yesterday in one important respect: they combine a democratic political system at home with despotism abroad. Even in the German case, as Sheldon Wolin reminds us, Nazi terror was not applied to the population generally. So long as democracy is a living reality at home, democratic empires are potentially self-correcting.

Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all.

In the new world order of the Wise Men of the West—the most powerful of the Genuine Globalists—the rights and freedoms of the individual would be based on positive law: that is, on laws passed by a majority of those who will be entitled to vote on the various levels of the new system of governmental administration and local organization. Ultimate rule, however, will be far removed from the ordinary individual.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.

The Negro "revolution" is controlled by these foxy white liberals, by the government itself. But the Black revolution is controlled only by God.

The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.

In our system, by world standards we have a high top marginal rate (45 per cent plus 2 per cent for the Medicare levy) and it currently cuts in at $180,000, which at only a little more than twice average full-time earnings, is a relatively low threshold.

Of all our taxes, the best growth tax is personal income tax. And it's the largest, collecting $223 billion in 2018–19 compared to company tax at $94 billion or the GST at $66 billion.

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

Do the words 'human rights' even exist in this country anymore?

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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Congress still preserved its constitutionally mandated power of the purse.

were now subject to the authority of a single secular ruler: the king of Mercia.