Quotes About Government

Bribery quickly became an integral part of the Russian way of doing business, and the expense of buying a government official was considered the most important part of a new enterprise's starting capital.

Most governments in western countries are basically bankrupt. They won't be able to guarantee you a safe retirement like your parents might be enjoying right now.

Riverkeeper and other organizations have demonstrated, time and again, that some governmental officals, from the EPA and the state DEC to mayors, local councilmen and woman, routinely protect polluters and subvert the public interest.

Strange things are happening here in the United States of America, right now, that are so troubling it is almost hard to believe they are occurring. Your taxpayer money is going toward these things. And your silence and/or apathy is tacit approval, not only in my eyes but in the eyes of the government.

The Oregonian published an exposé by reporter Steve Suo that reveals that the government could have contained (and could still contain) the meth epidemic. Only nine factories manufacture the bulk of the world's supply of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, but pharmaceutical companies—and legislators influenced by them—have stopped every move that would have effectively controlled the distribution of the chemicals so they could not be diverted to meth superlabs.

The true root of all evil is power, and both government and religion are effective tools for massing and maintaining power. When

According to Professor Ryan Cragun, churches cost America about $71 billion per year in nonprofit property-tax exemptions alone. That's enough for twenty-eight missions to Mars per year,10 or 1.5 million teachers11 or 1.4 million police officers12 per year.

Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan - a Mount Rushmore of incompetence.

The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.

The way we've set up corporations, even a majority vote of stockholders cannot demand that a corporation's policies reflect the public good or preserve the environment for future use. That's because profit is the one and only motive. It's up to government and it's up to people to protect the public interest. Corporations are simply not allowed to.

Limbic capitalism refers to a technologically advanced but socially regressive business system in which global industries, often with the help of complicit governments and criminal organizations, encourage excessive consumption and addiction.

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Having been tagged a "cult" by the government and the media, we became fair game, removed beyond the bounds of common sympathy.

Our agony was the government's triumph.

Everything American in me was stunned by the possibility that my own government might wipe us out. Where's Paul Revere when we need him? I thought childishly. Where are the Minute Men who should stand by our side?

it is impossible not to feel a kind of sickness at the thought that the government stole Indian land in order to fund the theft of Indian children.

wound down in 1842 at a cost of nearly $60 million

As of today, on Leech Lake, like many other reservations, the tribe owns roughly 4 percent of the land within the reservation boundaries. The rest of the land is divided among county, state, federal, corporate, and private owners.

is that we created a government that is doing this to us. It

Todo el mundo está a favor de reducir el Estado, salvo que encuentre la manera de vivir de él.

We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.

Our government may at some time be in the hands of a bad man. When in the hands of a good man it is all well enough. . . . We ought to have our government so shaped that even when in the hands of a bad man we shall be safe.

We ought to have our government so shaped that even when in the hands of a bad man we shall be safe.

The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it, simply because they couldn't believe any government would tell such an absurd story unless it were true.