Quotes About Government

It's a path that grows government, restricts freedom and liberty and compromises those values, those Judeo-Christian, Western civilization values that made us such a great and exceptional nation in the first place.

White House reporter Sarah McClendon about why he didn't do something about UFO disclosure. Clinton replied, "Sarah, there's a government inside the government and I don't control it.

After reading The Day After Roswell, however, I concluded that there were huge issues involved that should be in the public domain. How much had we learned from back-engineering the alien craft that had crashed? Was there a possibility of future star wars? Were the American taxpayers aware of what was going on, and the cost involved?

He confirmed that there had been crashes at Roswell (there were actually two, almost simultaneously), that the U.S. had long been working on back-engineering the technology, and that there had been face-to-face exchanges between the Star Visitors and U.S. officials.

Worse, Wilbert Smith had been a senior employee of the Canadian Department of Transport (DOT) where I became minister not long after his retirement

Project Magnet was not an official Government project. It was a project that I talked the Deputy Minister into letting me carry out by making use of the extensive field organization of the Department of Transport. Unfortunately the gentlemen of the press climbed on this and made a big deal of it.… However, we carried the project through officially for about four or five years and then went underground because of press interference

February 17, 1950: "We shall have world government whether or not you like it – by conquest or consent.

Overnight, the long-standing tenet that defense should be an extension of foreign policy was reversed.

Why do they hate us?" he asked rhetorically in an address to the Congress. "They hate what they see right here in this chamber: a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other."13

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

Politics is the art of preventing people from minding their own business.

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

Government studies show that there are still more than two million race-based housing discrimination crimes every year.8

Is everything propaganda?" I shuddered and looked again at the pilot, who was here in this godforsakenly frigid place, and probably thought he was going to be shot at any moment. All because his government had told a great lie. He was living that lie, and didn't even know.

We've got fourteen women in the Senate. Fourteen women in the Senate? We are 52 percent of the population. Apparently women do suck at math.

Yes, novel and untried," said Deaver. He took up his knife and fork. "So they have given the most warlike tribes on the plains into the hands of Quakers. The most warlike and the least known. How interesting life is. How strange." He ate a large bite of his steak. "How peculiar are the ways of government.

In America, a woman's body seemed to belong to everybody but herself. Her sexuality belonged to her husband, her opinion of herself belonged to her social circles, and her uterus belonged to the government.

For one hit he'd done a version of Victor/Victoria, pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man when he'd been hired to kill a paranoid and heavily guarded government official.

Universal experience," he began, proved the necessity of "the most express declarations and reservations … to protect the just rights and liberty of Mankind from the Silent, powerful, and ever active conspiracy of those who govern." The new Constitution should therefore "be bottomed upon a declaration, or Bill of Rights, clearly and precisely stating the principles upon which the Social Compact is founded.

Adams began his reply with a devastating comment on the preamble to the Constitution: "I confess," he said, "as I enter the Building I stumble at the Threshold. I meet with a National Government, instead of a federal Union of Sovereign States.

And he says that everything, absolutely everything, is a question of aesthetics and color. That people aren't really unhappy with you or your government. That the problem is the gray color of your uniforms, such a depressing color, so dull, and it doesn't go with anything. Do you realize that the only color it goes with is red, it's the only way to dress it up, make it look good? What a contradiction.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?