Quotes About Government

Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government!

The more independent mind you have the more your government will hate you! It is an honour for you to be hated this way!

Throughout the world, the very moment a legitimate government starts fascist implementations, it loses its legitimacy! When a government becomes illegitimate, it is no longer a government but an outlaw!

The Canada we know and love will not survive another four years of Stephen Harper and his Conservative government.

Harper's Conservatives have used three basic methods to undermine environmental stewardship in Canada: reduce the government's capacity to gather data; downsize or eliminate offices that monitor and analyze scientific information; and seize control of channels of scientific information and prevent the publication or release of any information that could interfere with government policy.

The damage that Stephen Harper has managed to inflict on so many aspects of Canadian democracy in just a few short years is frightening. That we have failed to stop it from happening, even more

the leader of a so-called democracy who ignores the will of the majority or fears criticism of his actions must resort to slinking in the shadows and to tightly controlling access to himself and to his ministers. Such is Stephen Harper's government.

La stabilità del potere spegne le speranze di quanti non l'hanno e che potrebbero ottenerlo solo per un mutamento di governo, perché è l'instabilità ad assicurare i rivolgimenti della fortuna di cui quasi tutti hanno bisogno per migliorare la propria condizione.

I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.

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Phoo," Zoltan said to me. "Legal system. Police. All playground stuff humans invented to amuse themselves. It's got nothing to do with real power.

However, as life has become more computational, people haven't changed. Just because we have open government data doesn't mean we don't have corruption.

Nenhum governo do mundo manda mais que o medo e a culpa. O medo me fez viver, recatado e pequeno. A culpa me fez fugir de mim, desabitado de memórias.

A política é a arte de mentir tão mal que só pode ser desmentida por outros políticos.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

What are the Democrats, the party of Jim Matheson, telling them? The message of the Democrats is that the Amercian dream is over. 'The government is all you have. Give up your dreams, and the government will save you, the government will heal you, the government will be your hope and change.' We know here in Utah, none of that is true.

at the dawn of the 1930s, state and local budgets dwarfed federal outlays by a factor of ten. Limited largely to the keeping of a standing army and navy and the payment of obligations incurred in wartime (including interest on war debt and the upkeep of veterans), the federal budget amounted to a negligible 3 percent of gross national product. By the end of the twentieth century, that figure would be closer to 20 percent.

The future of Big Science appears to depend on industry, whose R&D priorities are very different from those of universities, research foundations, and government.

Many Christians have put the political cart before the theological horse.

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.

it was one of those cases I found so common later in government, where the risk of acting was far less than the risk of doing nothing

In many ways, we are the city that the New Deal built. Because that's who built all of our infrastructure. Before that, we were a hardscrabble town.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.