Quotes About Government

To make the private into something public is an action that has terrific repercussions in the pre-invented world. The government has the job of maintaining the day to day illusion of the one tribe nation. Each public disclosure of a public reality becomes something of a magnet that can attract others with a similar frame of reference. Thus, each public disclosure of a fragment of private reality serves as a dismantling tool against the illusion of a one tribe nation.

Simply put, democracy is viewed exclusively as a set of principles of government that, like the grammar of a language, can be delineated, taught, and applied so that when uttered, it will sound the same regardless of habits of reading or listening. This trend towards a grammatical and linguistic common sense also finds expression in theoretical de- bates about normativity and deontology in contemporary liberalism.

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.

We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money.

Slater Didja ever look at a dollar bill man There's some spooky shit goin' on there. And it's green too.

Unfortunately, the hyperbole of the inaugural outran the provisions of the budget.

Entwined with the strand of conservatism in the Democratic party is the strand of empiricism.

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

The US exports democracy, hence there being very little left for Americans

Stop outsourcing your morality to governments

Small talk is an art in the Michigan U.P., since most things that happen here are small. Long silences are okay, too. Most of what's said will be said again tomorrow. The weather, gardening, and the no-good federal government are all good topics, interspersed with pauses and throat clearings. It's our way of life.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.

Laissez faire, laissez passer.

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

The remedy for our social evils does not consist so much in changing the system of government as it does in increasing the general intelligence of the people so that they may learn how to govern.

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.

The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks.

[I will] totally dismantle every intelligence agency in this country piece by piece, nail by nail, brick by brick

There are people who believe in Egypt that I - I'm actually - I'm getting paid by external powers and external intelligence entities in order to use satire to bring down the government.

Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.